Question

III. Add suitable Question Tags for the following.
1. He is very happy,
2. You are a good player,
2
3. They are not coming,
4. He is not crying,
2
5. Pratima spoke well,
2
6. Ranjan did not come to class,
7. They came to my house,
8. Nethran meets his old friends tonight,
9. Balan finished his homework,
10. I am a student,​

Answer 1

Required Answer:-

1] He is very happy.

• He is very happy, isn't he?

2] You are a good player.

• You are a good player, aren't you?

3] They are not coming.

• They are not coming, are they?

4] He is not crying.

• He is not crying, is he?

5] Pratima spoke well.

• Pratima spoke well, didn't she?

6] Ranjan did not come to class.

• Ranjan did not come to class, did he?

7] They came to my house.

• They came to my house, didn't they?

8] Nethran will meet his old friends tonight.

• Nethran will meet his old friends tonight, won't he?

9] Balan finished his homework.

• Balan finished his homework, didn't he?

10] I am a student.

• Ans:- I am a student, aren't I?

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Defining a Question Tag

• The small question at the end of a statement is called a question tag

For example:-

1. Meena has written the best essay, hasn't she?
2. We all are proud of her, aren't we?

• Each of these sentences has two parts: a Statement (Meena has written the best essay) and a short Question (hasn't she?). This short question has been tagged on to the Statement, so it is called a Question Tag,
• Question Tags are used to seek agreement or confirmation about what has been said from the person who is talked to.

Forming Question Tags

Take the sentence-

Meena has written the best essay for the essay competition, hasn't she?

1. The question tag consists of only two words – hasn't she? It uses the Pronoun of the same person as the Subject: she.
2. The Tense remains the same.

STRUCTURE:-

• ↬Positive Statement + Negative Question Tag
• ↬Negative Statement + Positive Question Tag.

Note:-

1. Affirmative Statements have Negative tags and vice versa.
2. Auxiliaries are repeated.
3. For Main Verbs use do, does, did.
4. We usually use shortened or contracted form of the Negatives, isn't, can't doesn't, etc.
5. Certain tags expect responses and certain others do not anticipate responses. This is a note for the spoken form.

Answer 2

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1. He is very happy.

Ans:- He is very happy, isn't he?

2. You are a good player.

Ans:- You are a good player, aren't you?

3. They are not coming.

Ans:- They are not coming, are they?

4. He is not crying.

Ans:- He is not crying, is he?

5. Pratima spoke well.

Ans:- Pratima spoke well, didn't she?

6. Ranjan did not come to class.

Ans:- Ranjan did not come to class, did he?

7. They came to my house.

Ans:- They came to my house, didn't they?

8. Nethran will meet his old friends tonight.

Ans:- Nethran will meet his old friends tonight, won't he?

9. Balan finished his homework.

Ans:- Balan finished his homework, didn't he?

10. I am a student.

Ans:- I am a student, ain't I?

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Question Tag (Definition):

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎A Question Tag is a small question added at the end of a statement as an agreement or as a confirmation.

Rules to make a Question Tag:

➛ If the statement is negative, then the question tag must be positive and if the statement is positive, then the question tag must be negative.

➛ The tense of the tag is fixed by the tense of the modal verb present in the sentence. If the statement does not have any modal verb then the auxiliary "to do" must be used.

For example: He comes from Beijing, doesn't he?

Structure:

➛ Positive Statement + Negative question tag

➛ Negative Statement + Positive question tag

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