Tag Questions
Complete each of these statements with a little request for confirmation.
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. “That would make four, wouldn’t it?”
2. “They haven’t engaged you to teach in a Sunday school, have they?”
3. “You are Captain Hastings, aren’t you?”
4. “She’s not been kidnapped, has she?”
5. “I suppose you got tied up with that awful woman, didn’t you?”
6. “And anyway,” Bundle ended, somewhat obscurely, “one must be a sport, mustn’t one?”
Imust it? IIdoesn’t it? IIIis he? IVare they? Vwill it? VIdon’t I? VIIam I? VIIIcould I?