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Teo Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

same way question tag

1i001. So your father is out,01b00 is he?02b02i02br
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01i002. This is the last bus, 01b00is it?02b02i02br
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01i003. I see. You don't like my cooking, 01b00don't you? 02b02i00(British English)02br
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00Shoud I use a falling intonation or a rising intonation?0-
  

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01 and 2 rise or fall depending on the speaker's beliefs. 01i 02br 02br 02i 00 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 01 and 2 rise or fall depending on the speaker's beliefs.
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01 and 2 rise or fall depending on the speaker's beliefs. 3 sounds weird to me (AmE); I would also rise or fall on 01i00do you?02i00, depending.01i02br
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0 01i00 In BrE number 3 should be "I see. You don't like my cooking, 01b00do you?'02b02i00 0-
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0Or, 01i00you like my cooking, do you?02i02br
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00It seems that the 'same way' tag works only in the affirmative, Teo.0-
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0Ah....now there I would disagree. In Britain we might say 'You like my cooking, don't you' or 'You like my cooking, do you'.0-
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0No need to disagree, Nona-- we are discussing only the 'same way' tags: those in which the main clause and tag are both affirmative (common) or negative (non-existent).02br
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00The 'opposite way' tags exist in both forms, of course, and in abundance--02br
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00Affirmative-negative: 01i00You like me, don't you?02i02br
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0 Sorry, but the negative-negative patterns don't sound hostile to me. They just sound dumb! That is, they don't even sound like grammatical patterns.02br
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0English Club has a very extensive discussion at that link, Teo, but all it has to say about negative-negatives is that single line you quoted. I have a feeling that the writer of that section felt s/he had to 'complete' the paradigm, whether it was possible or not. Unless a BrE speaker who will accept that tag comes along, you now have 3 votes against it (Jim and Nona and me-- that's two AmEs
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0Negative 'same-way' tags are occasionlly heard; they usually sound aggressive.02br
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01i00I see. You 01b00don't 02b00like my cooking, 01b00don't you?02b02i02br
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01b01font01i00Practical English Usage, 02i00by Michael Swan, Oxford University P
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0It looks like the folks at English Club just plagiarized Swan and changed a couple of words. The score is still 3-0 against the form here at English Forums, Teo. Feel free to try other sites.0-
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1i00So he doesn't like his job, doesn't he?02i02br
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00Page 813, 01b01i00A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, 02i00Longman Group Limited 198502b02br
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01b00Written by Randolf Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik02b02br
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