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tag questions
It's cold today,
tag questions isn’t it?

affirmative verb, negative tag negative verb, affirmative tag 5 38)))
It’s cold today, isn’t it? She isn’t h ere today, is she?
You’re P eru vian , aren’t you? You aren’t angry, are you?
They live in A n k ara, don’t they? They don’t like pizza, do they?
l'he game ends a t 8 :0 0 , doesn’t it? Lucy doesn’t eat m eat, does she?
Your sister worked in the U S , didn’t she? You didn’t like the m ovie, did you?
We’ve met b efo re, haven’t we? Mike hasn’t been to Beijing before, has he?
You’ll be O K , won’t you? You won’t tell an yon e, will you?
You’d go o n v acation w ith m e, wouldn’t you? Sue wouldn’t q u it her jo b , would she?

• T ag q u estio n s (is he?, aren't they?, do you?, did we?, etc.) are o fte n used to ch eck
so m eth in g you already th in k is tru e.
Your name’s Maria, isn’t it?
• T o fo rm a tag q u estion use:
- the c o rre ct a u xilia ry verb, e.g., do / does, be fo r the p resen t, did fo r the past,
will I won’t fo r the fu tu re, etc.
- a p ronou n , e.g., he, it, they, etc.
- a negative au xiliary verb i f the sentence is affirm ative and an affirm ative au xiliary verb
if the sen ten ce is negative.

a M a tc h th e p h ra s e s .

Y ou k n o w th a t m an , A d id n ’t you?
1 Y o u ’re g o in g o u t w ith h im , B w ill you?
2 Y ou h av en ’t told y o u r fa m ily a b o u t h im , C did you ?
3 Y ou m e t h im la s t m o n th , D w o n ’t you?
4 Y ou w ere at th e sa m e p arty , E h a v e you ?
5 Y ou d id n ’t k n o w h e w a s a c rim in a l, F w e re n 't you ?
6 Y ou a re n ’t h ap p y in th e re la tio n sh ip , G d o n ’t you?
7 Y ou d o n ’t w a n t to se e h im a g a in , H a re you ?

8 Y o u ’ll te ll u s th e tru th , I a re n ’t you ?
9 Y ou w o n ’t te ll an y lies, J d o n ’t you?
10 Y ou u n d e rsta n d w h a t I ’m say in g , K d o you ?
b C o m p le te w ith a ta g q u e s tio n (areyou?, isn’t it?, e tc.).

Y o u r n a m e ’s Ja ck , isn’t it?
1 Y o u r b ro th e r w o rk s a t th e g as s t a t io n ,________________ ?
2 T h e y d o n ’t h av e an y p r o o f,________________ ?
3 T h a t m a n is n ’t th e m u rd e re r,________________ ?
4 Y ou w ere a w itn e ss to th e c r im e ,________________ ?
5 T h e p o lic e h av e a rre s te d s o m e o n e ,________________ ?
6 T h e w o m a n w a sn ’t d e a d ,________________ ?
7 T h a t g irl to o k y o u r b a g ,________________ ?
8 H e w o n ’t g o to p r is o n ,________________ ?

9 Y ou h av en ’t se e n th e s u s p e c t,________________ ?
10 T h e y d id n ’t h av e en o u g h e v id e n c e ,_______________ ?
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