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Tag Question Rules: Shall We?"

The document outlines rules for forming tag questions in English using common pronouns and phrases. It provides examples of tag questions using "am", "let's", "there is/are", imperatives, indefinite pronouns like "somebody", and "hardly". The rules show how to form expected tag questions with pronouns like "they", "it", or auxiliary verbs based on the main clause.

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Tag Question Rules: Shall We?"

The document outlines rules for forming tag questions in English using common pronouns and phrases. It provides examples of tag questions using "am", "let's", "there is/are", imperatives, indefinite pronouns like "somebody", and "hardly". The rules show how to form expected tag questions with pronouns like "they", "it", or auxiliary verbs based on the main clause.

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TAG QUESTION

RULES
RULE FOR AM

RULE FOR LETS

I AM ------ , ARENT I?
I AM NOT ------ , AM I?

LETS / LET US ------ ,


SHALL WE?

e.g. I am in time, arent I?

e.g. Lets play football, shall we?


Let us go for a walk, shall we?

I am not on your list, am I?

RULE FOR THERE IS / ARE


THERE IS ------- , ISNT
THERE? e.g. There is a tree in the
garden, isnt there?

RULE FOR THE IMPERATIVE


TAKE CARE, WONT YOU?

THERE ARENT ------- , ARE


THERE? e.g. There were not any
people left, were there?

TURN THE SOUND DOWN, WILL


YOU?
PASS ME THE SALT, WILL YOU?
RULE FOR INDEFINITE
PRONOUNS

RULE FOR INDEFINITE


PRONOUNS

SOMEBODY / SOMEONE /
ANYBODY / ANYONE /
EVERYBODY / EVERYONE /
NOBODY / NO ONE ------- ,
THEY?

NOTHING / SOMETHING /
ANYTHING / EVERYTHING
------- , IT?
e.g. Nothing happened, did it?

e.g. Everybody wants to play, dont


they?

RULE FOR HARDLY


HARDLY ------- positive form
e.g. He can hardly speak, can he?
They hardly know anything about her, do they?

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