ENGLISH GRAMMAR
Question Tag/ Tag question
'Tag' means 'to add'.
The question that is
added at the end of a conversation to assess approval is called ‘Tag Question’.
Some Contractions
am not = aren’t, is not = isn’t, are not = aren’t, was not
= wasn’t, were not = weren’t, will not = won’t, shall not = shan’t, can not =
can’t, could not = couldn’t, may not = mayn’t, might not = mightn’t, must not = mustn’t, has not = hasn’t, have
not = haven’t, had not = hadn’t, do not = don’t, doesn’t, did not = didn’t,
ought not = oughtn’t, dare not = daren’t,
need not = needn’t.
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ASSERTIVE SENTENCE
Rule-1.Tag Question with auxiliary verbs.
Examples: He is a student, isn’t he? I am a student, aren’t I? They are
going to the railway station, aren’t they?
Rule-2.Tag Question without auxiliary verbs.( don’t ,
didn’t, doesn’t are used to make Tag Question).
Examples: He reads the daily newspaper, doesn’t he? He caught a
butterfly, didn’t he? We drink tea, don’t
we?
Rule 3. Positive Tag question for negative statement.
Examples: Rina doesn’t make a fun, does he? Nishita will not
realize the matter, will she?
IMPERATIVE SENTENCE
Rule-1. Positive Command, order or instruction
take-won’t you?/will you?/can’t you?/could you?/
Examples: Open the window, won’t
you? Do the work at once, will you? Speak the truth, can’t you?
Rule-2. Imperative with ‘Don’t’ at the
starting takes only ‘will you?’.
Examples: Don’t tell a lie, will
you? Do not go out, will you?
Rule-3. Imperative Sentence with Let’s/ let us
takes only ‘shall we’?
Examples: Let’s do the work, shall
we? Let’s not do the work, shall we?
Rule- 5: Let him, Let her, Let them, let Rina
etc. take ‘will you?’
Examples:Let them play well, will
you? Let him discuss the matter, will you?
****A GOOD STUDENT WANTS TO KNOW
EVERYTHING CLEARLY.****
****SO, HE/SHE ASKS SEVERAL QUESTIONS
TO THE TEACHERS DURING DISCUSSIONS.****
Question Tag/ Tag Question
EXCLAMATORY SENTEN
Rule-1. Exclamatory Sentence with ‘Be verb’ changes into proper contraction.
Examples: how nice the flower is, isn’t it? What a fantastic game it was?
Rule-2: Exclamatory Sentence without ‘Be Verb’ changes into proper
contractions of ‘Don’t, Doesn’t, Didn’t.
Examples: How sweetly the bird sings, doesn’t it? How nicely the bird sang, didn’t it?
SOME EXCEPTIONAL QUESTION-TAG
Rule- 1: If the subject is ‘Nothing
/Anything/Something/Everything,’ the subject in the ‘Question Tag’ will be
‘It’. Examples: Nothing is certain, is it? Everything was lost, wasn’t
it? Something is better than nothing, is it?
Rule-2: If the subject is
‘Everybody/Anybody/ Somebody/ Everyone/ Someone/ Anyone/ Nobody/ None’, the
subject in the ‘Question Tag’ will be ‘They’.
Examples: Everybody likes flowers, don’t they? Somebody came
here, didn’t they? Anybody can do this, can’t they? Everyone has left the place, haven’t
they? Someone will go there, won’t they? Anybody may do the sum, mayn’t
they? Nobody phoned, did they? None can help me, can they?
Rule-3: If subject is ‘all of us/ some of us/ everyone of us/ most
of us’, the subject will be ‘We’.
Examples: All of us came to the party, didn’t we?
None of us can solve such kind of sum, can we?
Rule -4: If the subject is ‘all of them,/some of
them/everyone of them/most of them’, the subject will be ‘they’.
Examples: all of them are active, aren’t they? Most
of them were active, weren’t they?
Rule-5: if the subject is ‘ all of you/ some of you / none of
you/ most of you/ everyone of you’, the
subject will be ‘you’.
Examples: Some of you did well, didn’t you? All of you can sing better, can’t you?
Rule-6:
Examples: I’d go there soon, wouldn’t I? They’d gone to the party, hadn’t they?
EXCEPTIONAL
BETWEEN
British Style and American
style
Rule-1:She had a pen, hadn’t she? (British Style) She had a
pen, didn’t she? (American Style)
(Both are correct rules. But you should
follow American Style.)
ADVICES
1.
To improve your skills in
‘Tag Question’, practise more and more.
2.
If you couldn’t
understand any rule clearly, take help from your teacher.
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