LET'S READ! 📖

Direction: Read the text below then answer the questions being asked.

Question Forms and Question Tags

QUESTIONS:

1. When do children get their second teeth?

2. What are incisors and molars for?

LET'S UNDERSTAND! 📚

QUESTION TAGS

🔺 A sentence with a question tag has a main clause and a question tag.

🔺 Use question tags when speaking to check information or to check that the listener agrees with you.

Question tag pattern: auxiliary/modal + subject pronoun

Question Tag

🔺 Main Rule

📌 If the main clause is affirmative, the question tag is negative.

📌 If the main clause is negative, the question tag is affirmative.

Exception: If 'I'll' is in the main clause, 'shall I' is used in the question tag.

🔺 Rule 1: If a sentence has no auxiliary or modal, use a form of do in the correct tense.

Example:

You know we're not talking about a wild cat, don't you?

🔺 Rule 2: If using "I'm" in the main clause, use "aren't I" in the question tag.

Example:

I'm gonna lose my job because of insubordination, aren't I?

🔺 Rule 3: If there is a negative word like 'never', 'no', and 'nobody' in the main clause, the question tag is affirmative.

Example:

There's nothing wrong with my teeth, is there?

🔺 Rule 4: After somebody, nobody, and everybody, the verb in the main clause is singular but the tag is plural.

Example:

Nobody knows about the secret, do they?

WHEN TO USE QUESTION TAGS?

🔺 Use question tags when speaking to check information or to check that the listener agrees with you.

Example:

Eating excessive sweets is not good for your health, is it?
We should clean our teeth every day, shouldn't we?

🔺 We use affirmative question tags when telling people to do things by using will / would / can / could you.

Example:

Cut it out, will you?
Just use your old shoes for now, would you?

SHOWING AGREEMENT

🔺 We can agree to affirmative statements in two ways:

Statement	so + auxiliary verb + subject	subject + auxiliary verb + too
I'm an English Instructor	So am I.	I am too.
Boys like doing Science Experiments	So do girls.	Girls do too.

🔺 We can agree to negative statements in two ways:

Statement	so + auxiliary verb + subject	subject + auxiliary verb + not + either
I don't like Chemistry and Physics.	Neither do I.	I don't either.
James hasn't completed his homework yet.	Neither have we.	We haven't either.

INTONATION WHEN USING QUESTION TAGS

🔺Rising Intonation ↗

used when we aren't sure of the answer.

🔺Falling Intonation ↘

used when we are fairly sure of the answer.

INTONATION WHEN USING QUESTION TAGS

Grammar Notes 📝

📌 In informal/casual conversation, we can use 'me too' and 'me neither'.

LET'S PRACTICE! 📝

Direction: Make one question tag related to each theme below.

Job :
Hobby :
Music :
Food :
Hometown :
Holiday :
Personality :