Question Tags

By – Shreyash,Shreyank,Sneh,Yashvi,Saloni,

Pranav,Siddhant

What are Question Tags ?

Question tags are the short

Questions that we put on

the end of sentences

particularly in spoken English

Why are they used ?

They are mainly used in speech

when we want to:confirm that

something is true or not, or to encourage

a reply from the person we are speaking to.

Rules of Question Tags?

A positive statement is followed by a negative question tag .A negative statement is followed by a positive question tag.When the verb in the main sentence is in the present simple we form the question tag with do / does.

If the verb is in the past simple we use did.When the statement contains a word with a negative meaning, the question tag needs to be positive

About Question Tags?They are often used

for checking information that we

think we know is true.There is one weird

exception: the question tag after I am

is aren't I.For example: I'm in charge of the food,

aren't I?

Examples of Question Tags

Examples with positive sentences with negative tags are - She's Italian, isn't

she? They've been to Japan, haven't

they? She'll have been

cooking all day, won't she?

Some examples with negative sentences with positive tags are -We aren't late, are we? She hasn't eaten all the cake, has she? You hadn't been sleeping, had you?

Exercise of

Question

Tags

1) She’s from a small town in China,______ ?

Answer- Isn’t she

2) He’s very handsome,______ ?

Answer- Isn’t he

3) They need some new clothes,______ ?

Answer- Don’t they

4) You don’t like spicy food, ______ ?

Answer- Do you

5) I like chocolate very much, ______?

Answer- Don’t I

ConclusionQuestion tags are fragments that helps us to create a question. They are indicator of politeness, emphasis or irony. Although they have the grammatical form of a question, they may be rhetorical (not expecting an answer).and they are of 2 types - negative and positive.

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