Name: Question tags - 6 Minute Grammar
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six minutes from BBC learning english dot com.

Hello and welcome to six minute grammar with me.

Today's program is about question tags, isn't it, Finn?

Yes, it is Katherine, and a question tag also known as a tag question, is a short yes, no question that we put at the end of a statement.

It's about five minutes from my house is very nice on the question tag.

Finn thinks he knows where I live, but he wants to check on.

He checks by saying a statement, then adding a short question at the end.

Mike's working from home today, isn't he?

The kids haven't forgotten to do their homework.

Now Forming question tags can be a little tricky.

When the statement is positive, the question talk is negative.

The statement you live near the station is positive.

Don't you exactly tip to when the statement is negative.

You didn't eat all the chocolate with a positive question tag, did you?

I think you had it with your coffee, didn't you?

A question Tak has just an auxiliary verb.

It doesn't have a main rube, for example.

Question tags are Are you Did they don't you?

And so on now, for tip for the auxiliary verb can be positive or negative.

And we have a positive auxiliary verb are in the statement, so we make it negative.

Aren't in the question, Tank Onda, Negative auxiliary verb in This statement becomes positive in the tag.

If there isn't an auxiliary verb in the statement, use the auxiliary verb do in the question tack on Dhere.

Don't they you at my chocolate, didn't you?

So that's auxiliary verbs in question tanks.

Our next question tax tip is that the subject intense of the question tack and statement are always the same.

So when I say Finn, you didn't eat my chocolate, did you?

In the statement on dhe, the question tack on the tents is past simple in both to BBC learning English.

Take on the mystery of my missing chocolate Flynn.

Well, before that, a word about speaking question tags are used mostly in spoken English.

There are two main reasons to use them in speaking.

The first reason is we can use question tanks to get someone to confirm something that we think we already know.

I definitely saw you eating something earlier.

You were eating my chocolate, weren't you?

Clearly clearly enough on if you were listening carefully, you probably noticed that Katherine's voice went down from high to low when she said The question tank, you were raising my chocolate, weren't you?

And that falling intonation means that Katherine thinks that what she is saying is correct.

She wants me to confirm it or just make conversation.

But when someone uses rising intonation in a question tag, when the voice goes up, they're asking a really question.

They want to find out if the statement is really true.

That, for example, you could say there isn't any meat in the soup, is there?

I'm going to say three statements and you have to add the question talks number one.

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Question tags - 6 Minute Grammar

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