Grammar - Question Tags

The rules:

1.    Negative question tags with positive statements are used like             this:

• We were quite early, weren’t we?
• The Kents will be leaving for Canada tomorrow, won’t they?
• It has stopped raining, hasn’t it?
• Sarah does all the house chores herself, doesn’t she?

• The girls made muffins this morning, didn’t they?
• I look strange in this outfit, don’t I?
• Mark lives in Singapore, doesn’t he?

2.    Short forms like wasn’t and isn’t are used in question tags.

·         Tonight’s concert was great, wasn’t it?

3.    Pronouns are used in question tags. The pronoun in a question tag must agree with the subject of the statement.

·         John was upset last night, wasn’t he?

·         The children are hungry, aren’t they?

·         The dog has been fed, hasn’t it?