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تطبيق عالم الدراما لمشاهدة المسلسلات العربية والأجنبية والتركية والكورية والبثوث التلفزيونية
✨Question tags in English:
✨1. Use:
A tag question is a short question added to the end of a statement, frequently used in spoken English; they turn a statement into a question. They are often used for checking information that we think we know is true.
✨2. Form:
If the main clause has an auxiliary verb in it (for example:be or have), you use the same verb in the tag question and a subject pronoun (for example I, you, she).
✨Usually if the main clause is positive, the question tag is negative, and if the main clause is negative, the question tag is positive.
Positive statemen ➡️ question tag negative.
-You are Tom, aren't you?
Negative statement ➡️ question tag positive.
-He isn't Joe, is he?
✨3.1.with auxiliaries
You've got a car, haven't you?
3.2.without auxiliaries (don't, doesn't, didn't)
-They play football on Sundays, don't they?
-She plays football on Sundays, doesn't she?
-They played football on Sundays, didn't they?
Questions tags are used to keep a conversation going. You can agree or refuse to a sentence with a question tag.
Affirmative sentence:
-He is from Germany, isn't he?
-Negative sentence:
He isn't from Germany, is he?
✨Possible answers are Yes or No. If you use Yes, do not use contracted forms. If you use No, contracted form are possible.
Yes, he is.
No, he is not. or No, he isn't. or No, he's not.
✨4. Special points
✨4.1. Although the negative word not is not in the sentence, the sentence can be negative. Then we use the positive question tag.
-He never goes out with his dog, does he?
✨4.2. If have is a main verb in the sentence and refers to states, there are two possible sentences
-We have a car, _?
We have a car, haven't we? mostly British English
We have a car, don't we? mostly American English
✨4.3. Use will/would with imperatives (Simple Present).
Open the window, will you?
Open the window, would you?
Don't open your books, will you?
✨4.4. We use won't with a polite request.
Open the window, won't you?
✨4.5. We use shall after Let's.
Let's take the next bus, shall we?
✨4.6. Auxiliary must
We must be at home at 8 pm, mustn't we?
Yes, we must.
No, we needn't.
✨4.7. Personal pronoun I
I am late, aren't I?
This form is commonly used (mostly informal). It is because there is no contracted form for am + not (amn't). Grammatically correct would be: am I not. This is only used in formal situations.
