UNIT - 36

Question Tag

A : The test is today!

B : Really?

B : Is it?

The conversation is about “surpriced”

Aux/ tobe + S

Question Tag

Right? => emphasize pur sentences

e.g :

* You are Vina, right? = informal

    Sentences    Tag

Tag => Aux + S

          Sentences    Tag

(+)               (-)

(-)               (+)

e.g :

* You are Vina, aren’t you?

* Fuad is sleepy, isn’t he?

* I met you last night, didn’t I?

Exception :

1.     I am......, aren’t I?

2.    Let’s go, shall we?

3.    Stand up, will you?

4.    Don’t move, will you?

5.    There is a cat, isn’t there?

Some, Any, No (Body) => They

Negative = no, not, never, hardly, rarely, seldom, scarcely, barely

e.g :

* No one is absent, are they?

* You can hardly breathe, can you?

Intonation

Rising => Sure/ right

Falling => Really ask, not sure