This document is from SN English Center and discusses question tags. It provides examples of question tags used with statements of different tenses, including short forms. It also lists 38 rules for using question tags, such as using "they" for plural subjects or "it" for singular animals or objects. The document is intended to teach English learners about proper question tag formation and usage.

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Topic-Question Tag
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Structure of Tag Questions
Positive structure →AV + PN
He is not clever, is he?
Negative structure →AV+ not +PN
He is clever, isn’t he?
Positive main clause →Negative tag Question
You are student, aren’t you?
Negative main clause →Positive tag Question
You are not student, are you?
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Long form to short form
Long form of verb Short form of verb
Do not Don’t
Does not Doesn’t
Did not Didn’t
Am not Aren’t
Is not Isn’t
Are not Aren’t
Was not Wasn’t
Were not Weren’t
Shall not Shan’t
Will not Won’t
Has not Hasn’t
Had not Hadn’t
Have to Don’t
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Long form to short form
Long form of verb Short form of verb
Can not Can’t
Could not Couldn’t
May not Mayn’t
Might not Mightn’t
Should not Shouldn’t
Must not Mustn’t
Need not Needn’t
Dare not Daren’t
Have not Haven’t
Has to Doesn’t
Had to Didn’t
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R#01
Present indefinite-Affirmative
V-1=Do /Don’t
V+s/es=Does/ Doesn’t
We love Bangladesh, don’t we?
She doesn't like me, does she?
Past indefinite
V-2=Did/ Didn’t
They went to Botanical park, didn’t they?
Future Indefinite
Will+V1=Will/ wont
I will not learn English, will I?

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R#02
Auxiliary verbs + other tense
You are good boy, aren’t you?
You are not good boy, are you?
Classification of Tense
1.Present tense 2.Ppast tense 3.Future tense
1. Indefinite
2. Continuous
3. Perfect
4. Perfect continuous
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Imperative Sentence
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R#03
Imperative sentence==Will you
1. Do the work, will you?
2. Do not do the work, will you?
3. Please, help the poor, will you?
4. Let him do the work, will you?
R#04
Let’s/ let usShall we
Let’s go to university, shall we?
Let us have a visit on Friday, shall we?

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Imperative Sentence
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Imperative sentence-Invitewon’t you?
Say something, won’t you?
Imperative sentence-should to do/Notcan’t you
Write clearly to get marks, can’t you?

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R#06
it/there it/there
There is no pond in this village, is there?
It is a good idea, isn’t it?
R#07
Nothing/ anything/ something/ baby/ this/ that/ itit
Everything is all right, isn’t it?
R#08
Nobody /anyone/ anybody/ neither/ no one/
everybody/ somebody/ everyone/ someone/ nonethey
Nobody believes a liar, do they?
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R#09
Hardly/ scarcely/ seldom/ barely/ little/ few/ never/ rarely/ nothing/
neither/ no one/ nobody/ nonethese are used negative sense
He hardly comes here, does he?
ExceptionalA little/ a few affirmative
R#10
When auxiliary verb used as a main verbTag question will be
according to indefinite tense
You have car, don’t you?
She had a nice pen, didn’t she?
R#11
No auxiliary verb subject in Exclamatory sentenceisn’t it
How beautiful, isn’t it?
What a nonsense, isn’t it?

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R#12
If have auxiliary verb subjectAccording to tag question
How beautiful the bird is, isn’t it?
How nice the gardens are, aren’t they?
R#13
Sub’d + V-1S + would + V-1
I’d take my exam well, wouldn’t I?
Sub’d + V-3 S + had + V-3
He’d played football moderately, hadn’t he?
R#14
All of you/ some of you/ none of you/ most of you/everybody of
you/ everyone of youyou
Some of you can speak well, can’t you?

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R#15
All of us/ none of us/ some of us/ most of us/ everyone of
us/ everybody of usWe
All of us have done it, haven’t we?
R#16
All of them/ none of them/ some of them/ most of
them/ everyone of them/ everybody of themThey
Most of them were absent, weren’t they?
R#17
Onehe
One cannot eat 1 kg of sweet alone, can he?

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R#18
The dog/ cat/ baby/ child/ table/ chairit
The dog is beautiful, isn’t it?
R#19
The titanic-ship/ the surma express-train/ the moon/ the
earth/ the spring/ the name of aero-planeshe/ it
The earth is round, isn’t it?
R#20
The sun/ death/ the summer/ the winter/ warhe/it
The sun rises in the east, doesn’t it?

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R#21
The mother/ the father/ the boy/ the girl/ the lion/ the
fox/ the best + in him/ in herit
The fox found in him, didn’t it?
R#22
The + Adjectivethey
The rich are not always happy, are they?
R#23
Complex sentenceMain clause will be tag question-
Maximum time
Unless you come, I will not teach you, will I?

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R#24
Subject + think/believes/knowBoth clause can be tag
question
I think you are right, aren’t you?
R#25
When dare/need use as a main verbTag question will
be according to tense. On other hand these are use as a
modals verb.
He dares to go, doesn’t he?
R#26
When Infinitive/Participle use as a subjectit use in tag
question
To speak the truth is virtue, isn’t it?

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R#27
Either/ NeitherThey
Either of the boys complained against you, didn’t they?
R#28
Nation means-the Chinese/ the BritishThey
The Chinese work hard, don’t they?
R#29
When many person joint by and
You and I we
You and heyou
You, he and Iwe
I and hewe
I and youwe
I, he and youwe
You and I have done the work, haven’t we?

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R#30
No subject in proverbit
Money is second god, isn’t it?
R#31
Material noun-Singularit, Pluralthey
The pen writes well, doesn’t it?
The sticks are strong, aren’t they?
R#32
Animal singularit, Pluralthey
The cat likes milk, doesn’t it?

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R#33
The + Adjective-Singular nounhe/she, Pluralthey
The ideal man has failed to do the work, hasn’t he?
The poor man suffers a lot, don’t they?
R#34
Mother landshe, Father landhe
Bangladesh is a beautiful country, isn’t she?
R#35
Masculine genderhe, Feminine gendershe
The master was cruel, wasn’t he?

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R#36
Who cares/who savesdo they
Who saves our country, do they?
R#37
Ought toshould
Student ought to study properly, shouldn’t they?
R#38
If we find two clause sentences, Principle clause will be
tag question.
When you go there, I will meet you, won’t I?

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