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Types of A Question Tag

This document discusses two types of question tags - positive and negative - and provides examples of each. It also outlines three general rules for forming question tags: 1) the subject of a statement must be changed to a pronoun when used in the tag, 2) contracted forms should be used in negative tags, and 3) the auxiliary verb used in the tag depends on the verb form in the statement. Question tags are a grammatical structure used to form questions by adding a short question to the end of a statement.

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Types of A Question Tag

This document discusses two types of question tags - positive and negative - and provides examples of each. It also outlines three general rules for forming question tags: 1) the subject of a statement must be changed to a pronoun when used in the tag, 2) contracted forms should be used in negative tags, and 3) the auxiliary verb used in the tag depends on the verb form in the statement. Question tags are a grammatical structure used to form questions by adding a short question to the end of a statement.

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Types of a Question Tag

A question tag is of two types

1. Positive Question Tag


2. Negative Question Tag

Positive Tags
When the statement is negative, the question tag is positive.
e.g.

1. Sahil is not home, is he?


2. I don’t often make mistakes, do I?

Negative Tags
When the statment is positive, the question tag is negative.                             ,
e.g.

1. You don’t need any medicine, do you?


2. This machine does not speak, does it?

General Rules for Question Tags


Rule 1
The subject of a question tag can never be a noun. If the subject of statement is a
noun then it must be changed into pronoun of same number and gender when it is to
be used in the tag part.
e.g.

1. Rohit is deceiving us.


QT Rohit is deceiving us, isn’t he?
Here Rohit is the subject of statement and it is a noun. When tag is
made Rohit is .  changed into ‘he’
2. Sayali is not mad.
Sayali is not mad, is she?

Rule 2
When a negative tag is formed then the contracted form is used in the tag part.
e.g.

1. She is eating, is not she? (Incorrect)


She is eating isn’t she? (Correct)
Using expanded form is not appropriate in tag. So, contracted forms should be used

Note: Amn’t is not accepted in usage. Whenever am + not is used in the sentence


then its contracted form is aren’t.

Rule 3
If the statement has V1, V2 or V1 + s/es then during the tag formation the auxiliary will
be as follows.
V1 → do
V2 → did

V1 → s/es → does

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