LEVEL 5 (UNIT 1, GRAMMAR 1)

 TAG QUESTIONS

Question tags are grammatical elements that are placed at the end of a sentence in the form of a short question and whose structure is opposed to the previous sentence. That is, if a sentence is affirmative, the question tag that accompanies it will be negative, and vice versa. For example, in: Your son is growing up so fast, isn't he? The first sentence states that the son is growing very quickly, while the final question is phrased in a negative way.

The two main rules for forming question tags are that when a sentence is affirmative, the question is negative. While when a sentence is negative, the question is positive.

Affirmative sentence + negative question tag.

1.  You like ice cream, don´t you?
2. Ana plays the piano, doesn´t she?
3. You work very hard, don´t you?
4. We don´t have classes, do we?
5. She ate lobster, didn´t she?
6. I turned off the projector, didn´t I?
7. She is an artist, isn't she?