Friday, May 23, 2014

Rules of Question Tags



Question Tags
A question tag is a question which is generally  asked to verify or confirm to the listener that the speaker’s statement is right, and because it is asked at end of the sentence so it is called question tag.
To make a question tag comma, helping verb,  the pronoun of the sentence and at the end question mark are used. Some rules are as follows...
1 - If the sentence is positive, the tag will be negative and if the sentence is negative then the tag will be positive.
Examples         
  • We should help the poor,  shouldn’t  we?
  • We should not take liquor, should we?
2 - The tag of I am is always  aren’t I?
Example –          
  •   I am a lawyer, aren’t  I?
3 – The tag of Imperative sentence is always will you?
Example –          
  •   Please sit down, will you?
  • Go and open the window, will you?
4 – In the tag pronoun is used in place of noun.
Example -            
  •  Ashoka was a king, wasn’t he?
Some more Example –
  •   She speaks french fluently, doesn’t  she?
  • You study all day long, don’t  you?
  •   The farmers grew grain, didn’t they?
  •   Trees also have hearts, don’t  they?