Another tag question.

LcchangFirst I'd like to thank all the advisors who helped me with some tag questions the other day. Now I have another sticky one, I guess.

You'd better watch out for that, ____ you?

Please help.

LC

When I use this construction, I'm thinking o

You'd better watch out for that, ____ you?

The tone of this sentence is not in a normal tag structure. When a sentence start with "you'd better", it's formed in an authoritative or advisory tone.

I think to make this sentence a tag question, it needs to be changed to something like:



“You would watch it closely, won’

PhilipWhen I use this construction, I'm thinking of 'had'; so, 'hadn't you', as strange as it may sound, is what I determine to be correct. Better sounding might be 'shouldn't you', but I don't think it's as appropriate.

Quite so. I would surely pick hadn't you, or - if I were writing it - had you not. Hadn't you

Just in case you wanted one more voice to chime in in agreement, I'd go with "hadn't you" also.

Hello there, G². It's been ages!

Always glad to read your opinion, as long as you agree with me. (kidding)

Grammatically, I agree "hadn't" is the logical answer. No questions there! But don't you find it odd with the posted context?

I don't think I've ever come across someone saying this.....

It sounds normal to me.

Same here. It doesn't sound that odd to me.

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