In this presentation, Some factors are defined as 1) What is question tag? 2) Techniques to tag/put a question? 3) What is the common mistakes? 4) Some special question tag?

1. Question Tag
Engr. Hamza Saleem
Mehran UET

2. What Question Tag is?
• A SHORT QUESTION which is added at the end
of statement to change it into YES or NO
question.
• We use COMMA(,) after statement and
QUESTION MARK(?) after question tag.

3. Structure
Statement, Question Tag?

4. Examples
Examples:
 It’s lunch time, isn’t it?
 It isn’t raining, is it?
 He works hard, doesn’t he?
 He does not work hard, does he?
 They attended a class, didn’t they?

5. How to add Question Tag?
• We add POSITIVE QUESTION TAG
with NEGATIVE STATEMENT.
• We add NEGATIVE QUESTION TAG
with POSITIVE STATEMENT.

6. •Negative
Question Tag
Positive
Statement
•Positive
Question Tag
Negative
Satement

7. Question Tag With TO BE verb
• She is working, isn’t she?
• She is not working, is she?
• We’re late, aren’t we?
• We aren’t late, are we?
• He was angry, wasn’t he?
• He wasn’t angry, was he?

8. Question Tag with AUXILIARY VERBS
 You’ll be there, won’t you?
 You won’t be there, will you?
 He should attend all lectures, shouldn’t he?
 I can go there, can’t I?
 I can’t go there, can I?
 It could happen, couldn’t it?
 He must exercise, mustn’t he?
 They have a car, don’t they?
 He has to work, doesn’t he?
 He’s got to work, hasn’t he?

9. Special Tags
To make suggestion with LET’S
Let’s begin, shall we?
let’s not rush, shall we?

10. Special Tags
Verb TO BE with pronoun I
I’m right, aren’t I? or am I
not?(Formal)
I’m not right, am I?

11. Common Mistakes
• Using NO? or ISN’T IT? as a general tag
 It’s cold, no? (Isn’t it?)
 You have a car, isn’t it? (don’t you)
 We never go out, don’t we? (do we)

12. Usages
Rising intonation
Formulate a YES/NO question
Falling intonation
Reinforce a statement and get agreement with listener

13. The End