NEGATIVE AND

TAG QUESTIONS
  Use: To check information that is probably true (answer
Negative with yes or no).
Questions
 Use the negative form of verb (usually the contracted
form).
Examples:

 Don’t you enjoy traveling by train?

 Hasn’t he played tennis before?
 Wouldn’t you like to go to the movies?
  Use: To ask for information or to check and confirm
information.
Tag  Use the auxiliary form of verb in the main sentence.
Questions
When verb in sentence is affirmative, the tag question is
negative:

 They were at the party, weren’t they?

When the verb in the sentence is negative, the tag

question is affirmative:

 He didn’t stay late, did he?

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Remember:

1. Put a comma between the main sentence and the tag.

Tag 2. When the subject is a pronoun (a word that takes place of

noun…I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who,
Questions whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.), we repeat it in the tag
question.

 It’s very interesting, isn’t it?

3. When the subject is a noun, we repeat it with a pronoun.

 John travels to Ecuador every year, doesn’t he?

 1. __you want to stay here? It’s nice. 5

2. India is a very diverse country, __?

3. Ana didn’t go out, __?

Practice
4. __you booked the flights yet? I thought I asked
you to last week.

5. The group won’t be taking a train to Cuzco, __?

6. They wouldn’t be much use, __?

7. __he pay for his hotel before he arrived?

8. __she like to go somewhere else for a change?