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English for Tourism & Hospitality (102) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh

Question Tags

Question tags are short questions at the end of

statements.

They are mainly used in speech when we want to:
 confirm that something is true or not, or

 to encourage a reply from the person we are

speaking to.

Question tags are formed with the auxiliary or
modal verb from the statement and the appropriate
subject.

A positive statement is followed by
a negative question tag.

Present She's Italian, isn't

simple 'be' she?

Present They live in
simple other London, don't they?
verbs

Present We're working
continuous tomorrow, aren't
we?

Past simple It was cold
'be' yesterday, wasn't it?

Past simple He went to the party

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