Tag Questions

Tag Questions

English is often finish sentences with another short sentence, of opposite sing, which intends to ask the opinion or seek approvalof the listener: are called question tags. These phrases are equivalent to right?, is not it?, no?, is not it? really? 

Examples:

  -you Eat meat, do not you?

  -She Does not like to dance, does she?

  -Alex and Sergio are friends, are not They?

• Grammatical Rules:

To form this short question use the ancillary to the main sentence and its subject but opposite sign. If you do not have auxiliary then we would use the auxiliary "to do".

If prayer is affirmative, the question tagline is negative and vice versa.

Examples:

• Affirmative sentences

           -Your Brother is older than you, is not I?

           -You Can help me, can not you?

           -John is getting married, is not he?

• Negative sentences

           -You’re not from here, are you? 

           -Kate’s not American, is she?

           -Peter never liked Susan, did he?