This document discusses question tags, including their definition, formula, rules, examples, and exceptions. Question tags are short questions added to the end of statements. They are used to check information, seek agreement, or request something. The formula depends on if it is adding a tag to a statement or removing the tag. There are also specific rules for tags with pronouns, verbs, auxiliaries, imperatives, and exceptions for sentences with words like never or everybody. The document provides sample questions and answers to demonstrate question tags.

1. Question Tags
by: Rina Indriyani, S.Pd.

2. Question Tag and Its definition.
Question Tags’ Formula
Rules and Examples
Some Exceptional in Question Tags
Evaluation 1
Evaluation 2
Key Answer 1
Key Answer 2

3. What is question tag?
It is a question added at the
end of a sentence.
What is the function of question
tag?
Speaker uses question tag
chiefly to make sure their
information is correct or to
seek agreement.

4. Question Tags’ Formula
Statement + Tag - ?
Ali is here isn’t he?
Statement - Tag + ?
Ali isn’t here is he?
Command Will you?
Stop that noise Will you?
Let’s……… Shall we?
Let’s go Shall we?

5. Rules and Examples
You like tea
Statement +
You are a student
They have left
They were busy
You will leave
Tag - ?
aren’t you?
don’t you?
haven’t they?
weren’t they?
won’t you?

6. Statement - Tag + ?
You are not a
student
are you?
You don’t like tea do you?
They haven’t left have they?
They were not
busy
were they?
You won’t leave will you?

7. Imperative and Prohibition
Sentences.
Come tomorrow, will you? For imperative and
Prohibition sentence, its
tag uses “will you”.
Be careful, will you?
Request Sentence
Let’s read a loud, shall we?
Let’s study, shall we?
Let’s …………. shall we?
Let me have a look, shall I?
will you?
won’t you?
Let me ………. shall I.
will you.
won’t you.

8. To be
Auxiliaries
am, is, are, was, were
Can – could, shall – should, will –
would, may – might, do / does –
did, have / has – had.
They are sick, aren’t they?
I am not stupid, am I?
I am clever, aren’t I?
I am……… aren’t I.
He did not go, did he?
He won’t go, will he?
He will go, won’t he?

9. Verb
You write a letter every week
He writes a letter every week
He wrote a letter last night
He has his breakfast at nine o’clock
We have to hurry
Ali had a swim yesterday
Verbal sentences use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t .
don’t you?
doesn’t he?
didn’t he?
doesn’t he?
don’t we?
didn’t he?

10. Pronouns
Ida is at home
There is a party tonight
Those are your pens
These books are new
Personal Pronouns.
isn’t she?
isn’t there?
aren’t they?
aren’t they?
There
Those and These are plural changed by They

11. Some Exceptional in Question Tags
Declarative sentences that use :
never, seldom, none, hardly, nobody, neither, no
thing, their tag must be in positive.
You never used to wear a hat
Nobody is ready
Ali seldom goes to school
There is nothing to do now
did you?
are they?
does he?
is there?

12. Some Exceptional in Question Tags
The statement is singular, but the tag must be in
plural or “they” if the statements contents with
words :
everybody, everyone, none, someone, nobody,
neither.
Everybody is ready
Neither of them cried
Nobody is absent
aren’t they?
did they?
are they?

13. Please answer the questions below!
1. Their teacher plans to give them an exam next week, ……….?
2. There have been a lot of students in the classroom, …………?
3. The climbers got lost in the mountain, ……………………?
4. Come to the meeting on time, ……………………?
5. Let’s go shopping down town, …………………….?
6. Ann was very busy yesterday, …………………………?
7. You don’t need to wait for her too long, ………………………….?
8. I’m the one who has lost the wallet, ………………………..?
9. Iwan has completed the test before the time is over, ……….?
10.Everybody came to the seminar in time, ………………….?
Test 1

14. Please answer the questions below!
1. Don’t cheat during the exam, ……….?
2. Sinta and Ana used to go camping last month, …………?
3. The price will keep increasing, ……………..?
4. One of the banks has been liquidated, ……………..?
5. They have never come late for the class, ………….?
6. Tomorrow is a national holiday, ……………..?
7. Nobody likes that kind of music, …………….?
8. We can find people who are jobless, ………….?
9. I am doing this because you need me to do so, ……….?
10.Don’t ever go out for a drive, …………….?
Test 2

15. The answer of the questions below is
1. Their teacher plans to give them an exam next
week, doesn’t he / she?
2. There have been a lot of students in the classroom, haven’t
there?
3. The climbers got lost in the mountain, didn’t they?
4. Come to the meeting on time, will you?
5. Let’s go shopping down town, shall we?
6. Ann was very busy yesterday, wasn’t she?
7. You don’t need to wait for her too long, do you?
Key 1

16. 8. I’m the one who has lost the wallet, ………………………..?
9. Iwan has completed the test before the time is over,
……….?
10. Everybody came to the seminar in time, ………………….?