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 Question Tags – with action verbs

In the last blog we discussed the question tags with the sentences (containing auxiliaries am, is, are etc.). Now we shall discuss the question tags of sentences with action verbs or like do, write, see etc.

We use question tags, short responses, prompts etc. during talks, without these things the conversation would become mechanical, boring and monotonous

Prior information

FIRST SECOND AND  THIRD PERSON

                                                                                                       

Person	Singular	Plural
First person	I	We
Second Person	You	You
Third person	He/She/It	They

       

First person refers to the speaker. Second person refers to the listener. Third person refers to the person or any thing  the first and second person speak about. The term 'person' includes non living things too.  

                                                               

  

Question Tags in Present Tense Sentences

She meets her boyfriend daily, doesnt’ she?

They pray daily, don’t they?

You watch TV quite often, don’t you?

You don’t like meat, do you?

Julia doesn’t like Pizza, does she?

 RULE TO FRAME QUESTIO TAGS, WITH THE VERB LIKE

Person	Mood	Sentence	Q tags
First	Positive (Singular) Negative (Singular) Positive (Plural) Negative (Plural)	I like you I dont like…. We like…. We don’t like….	Don’t I? Do I ? Don’t we? Do we?
Second	Positive (Singular) Negative (Singular) Positive (Plural) Negative (Plural)	You like… You don’t like….. You like… You don’t like..	Don’t you? Do you? Don’t you? Do you?
Third	Positive (Singular) Negative (Singular) Positive (Plural) Negative (Plural)	He/she/it likes… He/she/it doesn’t like.. They like …… They don’t like….	Doesn’t he/she/it? Does he/she/it? Don’t they? Do they?

NOTE: ‘He’ and ‘she’ include all singular nouns/pronouns, ‘it’ includes all collective nouns, proper nouns, common nouns etc. ‘they’ includes all plural nouns.

More Model sentences

It doesn’t rain much here, does it?

It rains a lot here, doesn’t  it?

The film caused the trouble, doesn’t it?

They work hard, don’t they?

Jennifer Lawrence  takes lessons in steps (for her new movie Silver Lining Playbook), doesn’t she?

Clint Eastwood and Justin  play golf for physical fitness, Don’t they

Brian De Palma gets good ladies for the leading roles, doesn’t he.

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