2. TAG QUESTIONS
RULES TO REMEMBER
1. Tag questions always use auxiliary
verbs
2. In affirmative sentences you should
use a negative tag question.
3. In negative sentences you should use
an affirmative tag question.
Tag questions are mini-questions placed at the end of an affirmative or negative
sentence, their objective is to confirm the affirmation content.
3. Alice and Nick invited
you to their wedding,
didn’t they?
Examples
The coffee machine
will be soon working,
won’t it?
4. For each of the following sentences, identify the tag
questions
1. You eat meat, don’t you?
2. Your brother is older than you, isn’t he?
3. You worked yesterday, didn’t you?
4. Peter never liked Susan, did he?
5. I am wrong, aren’t I?
ACTIVITIES