Question

Question tag for These children look weak and tired

Answer 1

We can add question tag like this-

These children look weak and tired, don't they?

Explanation:

Question tag -

It is a question which is added by the speaker to give emphasis on the said statement. It is also added to to take confirmation from the listeners.

Following are the the guidelines to add question tag -

• First we have to identify helping verb from the given sentence.
• We should check whether the sentence is positive or negative because if sentence is positive we should add negative question tag and if sentence is negative we should add positive question tag.
• If helping verb is not available then we should use do,does, did according to the verb available in the given sentence.

• Here the given sentence there is no helping verb and the tense of the sentence is simple present tense. Verb is in base from so we should use 'do' as a helping verb.

• The given sentence is positive so we should add negative question tag.

We should give question mark at the end of sentence.

So the answer is-

These children look weak and tired, don't they?

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Answer 2

Answer:

The given sentence is : - These children look weak and tired.

Now we have to add a question tag to the above sentences and it is : -

These children look weak and tired, don't they?

Explanation :

• To add a question tag first we should identify the tense of the given sentence, here it is written in Simple Present Tense, main verb 'look' confirms it.

• Tag question is written by a pronoun with a question mark, here 'they' has been written for 'children'. Children is a plural noun and we know that pronoun is used to replace a noun, therefore they is correct because it is a third person plural number.

• In a tag question, positive sentence takes negative question tag. Here 'These children look weak and tired' is a positive sentence and its negative tag question is 'don't they ?'. Do and does are auxiliary verbs of Simple Present Tense, do is used for plural number.

• Tag question means we have to write the tag in the structure of Interrogative Sentence, auxiliary verb is placed first, after a pronoun and a question mark at the end of it are put together. Without a question mark, Interrogative Sentence is not a sentence, it is grammatically incorrect.

• Example : They play football, don't they?

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