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Question Tags

Advanced Grammar intermediate medium

Short questions added to the end of a statement.

Advanced Grammar — Voice, narration, clauses and conditionals.

Rules

1. Positive statement → negative tag: She is nice, isn't she? 2. Negative statement → positive tag: He doesn't work, does he? 3. Use the auxiliary; no auxiliary → do/does/did: They went, didn't they? 4. "I am" → aren't I? (not "amn't I"). 5. Imperatives take "will you?" / "won't you?": Open the door, will you? 6. "Let's" takes "shall we?": Let's go, shall we? 7. Indefinite pronouns: Everybody knows, don't they?

Explanation

A positive sentence takes a negative tag and vice versa. The tag repeats the auxiliary and the subject as a pronoun.

हिंदी में

Question tag वाक्य के अंत में छोटा प्रश्न होता है — सकारात्मक वाक्य के साथ नकारात्मक tag और नकारात्मक के साथ सकारात्मक tag।

Examples

She is nice, isn't she? — वह अच्छी है, है न?
You haven't eaten, have you? — तुमने खाया नहीं है, है न?

Common Mistakes

{"mistake":"He doesn't work, doesn't he?","correction":"He doesn't work, does he?","note":"Negative statement takes a positive tag."}

Practice Questions

Q1. Which sentence contains an error?

He can swim, can't he?
She is here, isn't she?
They went home, didn't they?
You are coming, aren't they?

Answer: You are coming, aren't they?

💡 The tag must match the subject and auxiliary: 'You are coming' → 'aren't you?'

Q2. You don't like coffee, ___?

do you
don't you
are you
does you

Answer: do you

💡 Negative statement → positive tag.

Q3. She is your sister, ___?

isn't she
is she
aren't she
doesn't she

Answer: isn't she

💡 Positive statement → negative tag with the same auxiliary.

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Related Topics in Advanced Grammar

Topic	Level	What it covers
Active & Passive Voice	upper_intermediate	Who does the action (active) vs who receives it (passive).
Direct & Indirect Speech	upper_intermediate	Reporting what someone said, word-for-word or in your own words.
Active Voice	intermediate	The subject performs the action.
Passive Voice	upper_intermediate	The object becomes the subject; the doer moves to "by".
Direct Speech	upper_intermediate	The speaker's exact words inside quotation marks.
Indirect Speech	upper_intermediate	Reporting the meaning of speech without quotes.

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