Tag Questions
Complete each of these statements with a little request for confirmation.
A label head on Chichester cathedral, in the form of Queen Elizabeth II.
Introduction
Tag questions are those little questions such as aren’t I? or wouldn’t you? that we attach to the end of a statement in the hope of confirmation. See if you can dream up tags for these sentences.
These examples are taken from English literature, and in some cases more than one answer is possible, which is part of the game.
1. “They haven’t engaged you to teach in a Sunday school, have they?”
2. “You won’t forget the names, will you?
3. “Did you mean to warn me against Mrs Vandemeyer? You did, didn’t you?”
4. “You'll notify the proper people, won’t you?”
5. “But the whole thing seems rather suggestive, doesn’t it?”
6. “I might have seen him and not known it was him, mightn’t I?”
Iwould she? IIcouldn’t you? IIIaren’t I? IVisn’t she? Vdo I? VIdoes he? VIIshouldn’t we? VIIIaren’t they?
