Zusammenfassung der Ressource
QUESTION TAGS
- These are small questions at the end of sentence, do we use them when we
want to confirm something or do we want to know if something is true or
not
- If the main sentence is affirmative, the
tag question is negative
- If the main sentence is negative,
the question is affirmative
- *They are more common when
speaking than when writing
- form with the auxiliary or
modal verb of the main
sentence plus a personal
pronoun
- SOME OF THE
QUESTION TAGS ARE:
- yes?
- oh,yeah?
- no?
- oh,no?
- really?
- Example:
- Mary is cooking, isn"t she?
- Mary isn"t cooking,is she?
- If we are sure or almost sure that the
listener confirmed that our clarification
is correct, we say the question label with a decent intonation
- If we are a little less sure we say the question label
with increasing intonation
- Sometimes there is no auxiliary
verb already in the statement. For
example ,when...
- the verb in the
statement is
present simple or
past simple and is
positive. Here we
use don"t, doesn"t or didn"t.