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Joey_five Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

question tag in a sentence with 2 clauses ...

Hi,

I am puzzling which sentence is correct.

1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you?

2) You are late because you missed the bus, didn't you?

and how about other sentence structure with if ...etc??

thanks!!
  

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Joey_five Hi, I am puzzling which sentence is correct. 1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you? Correct.

— BarbaraPA

  • Joey_five Hi, I am puzzling which sentence is correct.
  • 1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you?
  • Correct.
  • " 2) You are late because you missed the bus, didn't you?
  • Incorrect.
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Joey_fiveHi,

I am puzzling which sentence is correct.

1) You are late because you missed the bus, aren't you? Correct. Transposed, it would be "Are you late because you missed the bus?"

2) You are late because you missed the bus, didn't you? Incorrect. Transposed, it would be "Did you late bec
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GG

thanks for the explanation, it makes sense to me. But I see one exercise from a book:

A: You always tell everyone what happens, don't you?

B: Well, that's because I see so many movies, don't I?

Why is B useing "don't I" here? Because of what A has just said?? Could we use "isn't that" to replace "don't I" ....
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How about the following sentence:

If you don't go to school tomorrow, I will kill you, won't I?

Is it correct?

It seems the question tags follow the verbs of the main clauses, not the independent clause if it happens to have two or more clauses??
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You and he were clasamates in 2000
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