Question

What are the suitable question tag for the following sentence? 1. Use your intelligence,____ 2. Everyone is happy,____ 3. None of us knew what to do,____ 4. I am right,____

Answer 1

The suitable question tags have been added as follows:

1. Use your intelligence, won't you?

2. Everyone is happy, aren't they?  

3. None of us knew what to do, did we?

4. I am right, ain't I?

• Question tags can be added after imperative or declarative statements by the addition of a question fragment.

• When the statement is positive, we use a negative question tag whereas it is negative, we use a positive question tag.

• In cases where there is an auxiliary verb in the sentence, we use it to form the question tag.

For example:

I don't need to go out today, do I?

Answer 2

Correct question tags should be added to the given sentences as shown and explained below:

1. Use your intelligence, won't you?

2. Everyone is happy, aren't they?

3. None of us knew what to do, did we?

4. I am right, ain't I? /amn't I?

Explanation

A tag question is a question added at the end of a sentence. A tag question following an affirmative statement generally has the form of a negative question and a negative statement has an affirmative question, with the meaning: Isn't that true? A question tag always consists of the helping verb of the tense and the pronoun used in the main clause.