Tag question Examples with some rules:

 

Tag question Examples with some rules:

1.       Listen to me, will you?

2.       Call in a doctor, will you?

3.       Open the door, will you?

4.       Work hard, can’t you?

5.       Call him aloud, can’t you?

6.       Don’t waste time, will you?

7.       Don’t forget me, will you?

8.       Let’s go for a work, shall we?

9.       Let us do for the work, shall we?

10.   Let me have some food, will you?

11.   Let him do whatever he likes, will you?

12.   I am busy, aren’t I?

13.   It is not a bad idea, is it?

14.   There is something wrong, isn’t there?

15.   Never, neither, no, none, nobody, hardly, barely, scarcely, few, little, seldom, ever are negative words , they don’t take not anymore.

16.   Nobody knew it, did they?

17.   Neither of the girls went home, did they?

18.   No one should go there, should they?

19.   A barking dog seldom bites, does it?

20.   He has a little idea, has he?

21. Something is better than nothing, is it?

v  Note: Nothing, something, anything, this, that  takes it as a Subject.

Ø  Nothing can satisfy the boy, can it?

Ø  Nothing is wrong, is it?

v  Someone, somebody, everyone, everybody, no one, nobody, each, either, neither takes plural subject.

1.    Every mother loves her child, don’t they?

2.    Someone did it, did they?

3.    Each girl has given a picnic, haven’t they?

4.    What  a nice bird it is!  Isn’t it?

5.    How funny! , isn’t it?

6.     How fast the planes fly! Don’t they?

 

7.    How nicely she writes, doesn’t she?

8.    Kind people, aren’t they?

9.    A true patriot, isn’t he?

10. You ought to do go there, oughtn’t you?

11. The old man used to smoke, didn’t he?

                                                                               

 

Prepared by Md. Mohiuddin Ahmed