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Question Tags play an important role in our daily activities and communication. We use them directly or indirectly. They perform different roles and functions in different situations. To get conversation started and to keep it going, Question Tags are effectively used. It is a typical construction in English.
- Used at the end of the sentence to ask for confirmation.
- Used in a more polite way to request information.
- Used at the end of Declarative or Imperative Sentences.
- A shortest form of question in English language.
Question Tag is known as-
Tag Question, Short Question, Brief Question, Small Question, Mini Question, Question tail etc.
Question Tag consists of-
Helping Verb (positive or negative) + Pronoun + Question Mark (was he? / didn’t they?) |
Rules with examples-
RULE 1 If the sentence is positive Question tag will be negative.
If the sentence is negative Question tag will be positive.
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RULE 2 If the sentence begins with This/That, use the pronoun ‘it’ in Q. T.
If the sentence begins with These/Those, use the pronoun ‘they’ in Q.T.
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RULE 3 If the sentence is of ‘Simple Past Tense’, use the verb ‘did’ in Q.T.
If the sentence is of ‘Simple Present Tense’, use the verb ‘do/does’ in Q.T.
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RULE 4 If the sentence is Imperative, use the Q.T. ‘will you?’
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RULE 5 If the sentence begins with ‘Let’s’, use the Q.T. ‘shall we?’
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RULE 6 If the sentence begins with ‘There’, use the same word as pronoun in Q.T.
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RULE 7 If the sentence begins with ‘Somebody, Nobody, Anybody, Everybody, Everything, Nothing etc.’, use pronoun ‘they’ in Q.T.
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RULE 8 If the subject is plural use the pronoun ‘they’ in Q.T.
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RULE 9 If there is a verb ‘am’ in positive sentence, use the verb ‘are’ in Q.T.
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