tag question

Tag questions can be answered with a yes or no.

Another way to handle polarities is to use tag questions.

English tag questions may contain a negation, but need not.

It may be either a question, or a statement of opinion with a tag question.

In legal settings, tag questions can often be found in a leading question.

In several languages, the tag question is built around the standard interrogative form.

The phrase is known to lexicographers as a tag question, like the won't you?

However, there are others, called tag questions, which are less colloquial and can be used for any situation.

English tag questions can have a rising or a falling intonation pattern.

"You do want to learn about tag questions, don't you?"

However, the equivalent in many languages is not a true tag question, but rather a complete question.

The English tag question is made up of an auxiliary verb and a pronoun.

I've talked about using negation and tag questions.

All but the first are tag questions.

Examples of this include the use by some speakers of the tag question isn't it?

Most English tag questions have this falling pattern.

Tag questions are made by adding ugye to the beginning or end of a statement.

On the other hand, the adverbial tag questions (alright?

Her focus has been on the way tag questions can be used to both build and contest intersubjectivity.

They are commonly found in tag questions.

Tag questions, formed with a special verb and pronoun subject: isn't it?

Here the tag question repeats the main verb, not an auxiliary:

These are sometimes called "balanced tag questions".

Notice how when the main sentence is affirmative, the tag question is negative, and vice versa.

Tag questions are uttered with a rising intonation.