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Belly Posted 18 years ago
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What do we use a tag question for?
  

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Belly What do we use a tag question for? You like peanuts, don't you? You aren't dating Jane, are you?

  • Belly What do we use a tag question for?
  • You like peanuts, don't you?
  • You aren't dating Jane, are you?
  • After an affirmative sentence, the tag is in the negative; after a negative, it is in the affirmative.
  • The tag question is for asking confirmation of what the speaker thinks to be true.
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BellyWhat do we use a tag question for?
You like peanuts, don't you?

You aren't dating Jane, are you?

After an affirmative sentence, the tag is in the negative; after a negative, it is in the affirmative.

The tag question is for asking confirmation of what the speaker thinks to be true.

[Equivalent to "verdad?" in Spanish an
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What do we use a tag question for?
To ask a question. It's an alternate way of asking a yes/no question.

You can ask Are you going to the play? or You're going to the play, aren't you?

When you ask the first way, you're saying that you don't know the answer at all.
When you ask the second way (with a tag question), you're sa

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