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Flyfly Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Problem with question tag

How to add the right tag question for this sentence? (There is nobody in the class)

Nobody in the class, isn't there?
Nobody in the class, is there?

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Hi, How to add the right tag question for this sentence? (There is nobody in the class) Nobody in the class, isn't there? Nobody in the class, is there?

  • Hi, How to add the right tag question for this sentence?
  • (There is nobody in the class) Nobody in the class, isn't there?
  • Nobody in the class, is there?
  • Neither of the above is correct.
  • Say eg There is nobody in the class, is there?
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Hi,

How to add the right tag question for this sentence? (There is nobody in the class)

Nobody in the class, isn't there?
Nobody in the class, is there?

Neither of the above is correct.
Say
eg
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I mean the classroom, ie the place.
Does it mean I have to use the word "classroom" instead?

I read in a website that for informal speech, if we want to say "there is nobody in the classroom".. we can leave out pronoun subjects, auxiliary verbs and verb. Therefore the sentence will change into "nobody in the classroom". Is that not correct?

How about for sentences with the wo
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Hi,

In that kind of informal, casual English, the tag would be
eg Nobody in the classroom, right?
eg Nobody in the classroom, is there?

As for your other questions, please post a few sentences for us

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