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Colegio El Espíritu Santo
Nombre Del Trabajo: Tag Questions

Materia: Ingles

Docente: Ever Adalberto Mejía Mejía

Alumna/o: Karen Melissa Gálvez Rivas

Grado: 7 GRADO

Sección: " A "

Fecha de entrega: 12-07-2012

TAG QUESTIONS
* A tag question is a special construction in English. It is a statement followed by a mini-question. The whole sentence is a "tag question",and the mini-question at the end is called a "question tag".

* A "tag" is something small that we add to something larger. For example, the little piece of cloth added to a shirt showing size or washing instructions is a tag.
We use tag questions at the end of statements to ask for confirmation. They mean something like: "Am I right?" or "Do you agree?" They are very common in English.

* Aquestion tag is the "mini-question" at the end. A tag question is the whole sentence.

* A question tag or tag question is a grammatical structure in which a declarative statement or an imperative is turned into a question by adding an interrogative fragment (the "tag"). For example, in the sentence "You're John, aren't you?", the statement "You're John" is turned into a question by the tag"aren't you". The term "question tag" is generally preferred by British grammarians, while their American counterparts prefer "tag question".
USES
* In most languages, tag questions are more common in colloquial spoken usage than in formal written usage. They can be an indicator of politeness, emphasis or irony. They may suggest confidence or lack of confidence; they may beconfrontational, defensive or tentative. Although they have the grammatical form of a question, they may differ from questions in that they do not expect an answer. In other cases, when they do expect a response, they may differ from straightforward questions in that they cue the listener as to what response is desired. In legal settings, tag questions can often be found in a leading question. Accordingto a specialist children's lawyer at the NSPCC, children find it difficult to answer tag questions other than in accordance with the expectation of questioner.[1
Forms
* Question tags are formed in several ways, and many languages give a choice of formation. In some languages the most common is a single word or fixed phrase, whereas in others it is formed by a regulargrammatical construction.
Tag questions in English
* English tag questions, when they have the grammatical form of a question, are atypically complex, because they vary according to four factors: the choice of auxiliary, the negation, the intonation pattern and the emphasis.
Axiliary
* The English tag question is made up of an auxiliary verb and apronoun. The auxiliary has to agree with the tense, aspect and modality of the verb in the preceding sentence. If the verb is in the present perfect, for example, the tag question uses has or have; if the verb is in a present progressive form, the tag is formed with am, are, is; if the verb is in a tense which does not normally use an auxiliary, like the present simple, the auxiliary is takenfrom the emphatic do form; and if the sentence has a modal auxiliary, this is echoed in the tag:
He's read this book, hasn't he?
He read this book, didn't he?
He's reading this book, isn't he?
He reads a lot of books, doesn't he?
He'll read this book, won't he?
He should read this book, shouldn't he?
He can read this book, can't he?

* A tag question is a special construction in English. Itis a statement followed by a mini-question. The whole sentence is a "tag * question", and the mini-question at the end is called a "question tag".

* We use tag questions at the end of statements to ask for confirmation. They mean something like: "Am I right?" or "Do you agree?" They are very common in English.
Answers to tag questions
* How do we answer a tag...