Question Tags

Question 1

1. What is a question tag?
2. Question tags should be in contract form. Yes/No?

Answer 1

1. A short piece of question added to a statement or imperative sentence.
2. Yes

Question 2

Write the contract form for the following
1. Shall+not
2. Will+not
3. Am+not
4. Are+not
5. Must+not

Answer 2

1. Shan’t
2. Won’t
3. Aren’t
4. Aren’t
5. Mustn’t

Question 3

What are the 4 steps involved in writing a question tag for a given statement?

Answer 3

1. Identify the helping verb in the statement and write it down
2. Check for negative word/sense in the statement and write not if there isn’t any negative sense after helping verb in contact form or else leave it
3. Write the pronoun of the subject
4. Write question mark

Question 4

Write question tags for the following statements
1. He is playing chess now, __
2. Iam yours,__
3. Rekha has little money,__
4. They have done it,__
5. Raghu seldom does his work,__
6. They do their work,__

Answer 4

1. isn’t he?
2. aren’t I?
3. does she?
4. haven’t they?
5. does he?
6. don’t they?

Question 5

1. When the subject of a statement is ‘everyone, everybody, no one, nobody’, the subject of the question tag is
2. Everybody is supposed to finish the work in time,__
3. Nobody deserves the reward,__

Answer 5

1. They
2. aren’t they?
3. do they?

Question 6

1. When the subject of a statement is ‘nothing or everything’, the subject of the question tag is __
2. Nothing is impossible,__

Answer 6

1. It
2. Is it?

Question 7

1. When a statement begins with ‘there’, the subject of the question tag is
2. There are a few books in the shelf,__

Answer 7

1. the same i.e., There
2. aren’t there?

Question 8

If the following verbs are main verbs in the statement then write the helping verbs for them
1. Write
2. Posted
3. Plays
4. Has
5. Do
6. Does

Answer 8

1. Do+Write
2. Did+post
3. Does+play
4. Does+have
5. Do+do
6. Does+do

Question 9

1. Write be forms of present and past
2. For ‘be’ form verbs main verb is helping verb if there is only be form in the statement. True/False

Answer 9

1. Is, am, are, was, were
2. True

Question 10

1. When the subject of a statement is ‘one’, the subject of the question tag is
2. One should be loyal to one’s country, __

Answer 10

1. the same i.e., One
2. shouldn’t one?

Question 11

1. When an imperative begins with Let’s or Let us, the question tag is
2. Let’s start,__

Answer 11

1. Shall we?
2. Shall we?

Question 12

1. A negative imperative sentence starts with
2. A negative imperative sentence always takes the question tag
3. Don’t repeat it,__

Answer 12

1. Don’t +V1
2. Will you?
3. Will you?

Question 13

1. A positive imperative starts with
2. A positive imperative indicating a request takes any 8 of the question tags. Write them in the order of priority.
3. Return my book tomorrow, please! __

Answer 13

1. V1
2. Could you?
   Will you?
   Would you?
   Can you?
   Couldn’t you?
   Won’t you?
   Wouldn’t you?
   Can’t you?
3. Could you?

Question 14

1. A positive imperative indicating an order or command takes the question tag
2. Sit right,__

Answer 14

1. Can’t you?
2. Can’t you?