Question

The trains are never on time question tag

Answer 1

A question tag can be added as follows:

The trains are never on time, are they?

What is a question tag?

• In the field of English grammar, a question tag can be described as a mini-interrogative fragment that is added to the end of a statement.
• A question tag changes a statement into a question.
• If a statement is negative, a positive question tag is added and if a statement is positive, a negative question tag is added.
• A question tag is made using a verb and a subject.
• As the statement 'The trains are never on time' is a negative one, we will add a positive question tag to it. Hence, the correct question to add will be 'are they'.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The trains are never on time, aren't they?

Explanation :

• 'Are they?' is a question tag here. If we carefully observe the above sentence, we will see, a helping, after a pronoun and a question mark have been used at last. Here are is a helping verb, they is a third person plural number.

• Are is a be verb of Present Indefinite Tense, it is used for plural number, here it is 'the trains'. Here used 'they' is indicating the subject of the above sentence 'the trains'.

• We know pronoun is used to replace the noun, therefore 'they' has replaced 'the trains'. As it is a question, so we have to add a question mark and it is mentioned at the end of the above sentence.

• Negative contraction ' aren't ( are +'not = aren't ) gives us a negative sensation but actually it helps to emphasize the question.

• The positive sentence takes negative question tag and negative sentence takes positive tag question. Here 'The trains are never on time' is a positive sentence, so it has taken a negative question tag, 'aren't they?'

• Example : He doesn't drink milk, does he? It is a negative sentence, so it has taken positive tag question, 'does he?' After 'he' does is used in Simple Present Tense.

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