Question Tags

This week we are working with question tags. 

Let's star with some examples showed on this video and then let's read and practice! As you can see, the author of the video provided you with some exercises, which I glued below. 

"Watch and fill in the question tags. 1. Oh you did, ...............? 2. It's great, ..............? 3. It never is , ..............? 4. You never stop talking, ..............? 5. You'd love that, .................? 6. Subtlety isn't her strong suit, .............? Listen again and match them to the use/feeling ('e' matches to 2 sentences). a) checking if someone agrees with your opinion (sounds certain). b) Checking that someone did something (sounds a little worried). c) An enthusiastic response to a positive statement/compliment (sounds happy). d) Accusing someone of hoping something bad will happen (sounds angry) e) Knows the answer already (sounds tired of the other person) - matches to 2 of the sentences. Think about how they pronounce the question tags too (to show feeling, does the intonation rise or fall, connected speech)"

Read the examples:

They are beautiful, aren’t they?

Verb to be in the affirmative                                        Tag with Verb to be in the negative 

I’m older than you, aren’t I?

First person singular                                              Tag turns into "aren't I"

Open the window, will you?

Instruction in the affirmative                                   Tag with "Will you"

Don’t forget to go to the supermarket, will you?

Instruction in the negative                                                                                                                         Tag with "Will you"

Let’s go for a walk, shall we?

Invitation "Let's ..."                                                   Tag turns into "Shall we"

He hadn't got a new car, had he?

Verb to have in the negative                                        Tag with Verb to have in the positive

The teacher gave you permission, didn't she?

A verb in the Past Simple in the affirmative                                                                              requires a Tag with didn't 

     Your parents didn't tell you, did they?

              A verb in the Past Simple in the negative                                                      requires a Tag with did 

üIf the sentence is positive, the QT (question tag) is negative

üIf the sentence is negative, the QT is positive

üThey are formed with the auxiliary verb or modal and the personal pronoun

üIf the verb is in the present simple or past simple, it is formed with do, does or did

üWith words such as, never, hardly, seldom, rarely the question tag is positive

Exception: with I am we have an irregular tag:

I am right, aren't I? and I am not right, am I?

Time to exercise:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/question_tags3.htm 

https://www.englishgrammar.org/question-tags-exercise-2/ 

Question Tags

Read the examples:

They are beautiful, aren’t they?

Verb to be in the affirmative                                        Tag with Verb to be in the negative 

I’m older than you, aren’t I?

First person singular                                              Tag turns into "aren't I"

Open the window, will you?

Instruction in the affirmative                                   Tag with "Will you"

Don’t forget to go to the supermarket, will you?

Instruction in the negative                                                                                                                         Tag with "Will you"

Let’s go for a walk, shall we?

Invitation "Let's ..."                                                   Tag turns into "Shall we"

He hadn't got a new car, had he?

Verb to have in the negative                                        Tag with Verb to have in the positive

The teacher gave you permission, didn't she?

A verb in the Past Simple in the affirmative                                                                              requires a Tag with didn't 

     Your parents didn't tell you, did they?

              A verb in the Past Simple in the negative                                                      requires a Tag with did 

üIf the sentence is positive, the QT (question tag) is negative

üIf the sentence is negative, the QT is positive

üThey are formed with the auxiliary verb or modal and the personal pronoun

üIf the verb is in the present simple or past simple, it is formed with do, does or did

üWith words such as, never, hardly, seldom, rarely the question tag is positive

Time to exercise:

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/question_tags3.htm 

https://www.englishgrammar.org/question-tags-exercise-2/ 

9 graders: Question Tags

A tag question is a question we can add to the end of a statement.

The basic rules for forming the two-word tag questions are as follows:

* the subject in the statement matches the subject in the tag

* the auxiliary verb or verb to be in the statement matches the verb used in the tag

* if the statement is positive, the tag is usually negative and vice versa

When present and past simple tenses appear in positive statements, normally no auxiliary verb is used, but we use the auxiliaries does, do or did in the tag. In negative statements in the present or past simple, the auxiliaries doesn't, don't ordidn't are, of course, already present.

When we use the there is structure, there is reflected in the tag:

• There's nothing wrong, is there?
  
• There weren't any problems when you talked to Jack, were there?

tag questions - special features

positive statement - positive tag

We sometimes use a positive tag with a positive statement when we want to express surprise or particular interest:

• I shall be staying at my favourite hotel - the five-star hotel in Windsor. ~ Oh, you've stayed there before, have you?
  
• And I'm having supper there with the Australian tennis ace, Lleyton Hewitt. ~ Oh, so you know Lleyton Hewitt,do you?

imperative sentences and let's

After imperatives, we sometimes add will you? or won't you? when we want people to follow our advice:

• Don't stay there long, will you?
  
• And do take care, won't you?

After let's we sometimes add shall we? when we are making a suggestion:

• Let's have buttered scones with strawberry jam for tea,shall we?

You can find info about the question tags in your book on pages 59, 60, 173 and 236.

Note:

This information was taken from - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv208.shtml 

Question Tags - 8 Form

We have recently come across question tags. We discussed and did some exercises in class. Now, we have here a video about it.