Question Tags
In this week's programme, we challenged Juliana to form correct question tags (also called tag questions). Will she succeed? And what on earth is a question tag anyway? Find out by listening to the show!

Listen to the programme!
	Question tags

Download this programme (mp3 - 1.5mb)




A question tag is a short question at the end of a sentence, which we use to find out information or check information that we already have. This is how you form question tags:

Positive sentence - negative tag	You will do it quickly, won't you?
Negative sentence - positive tag	She isn't happy, is she?
Main verb - use 'do'	We went to the party, didn't we?
Pronouns	Yuki and Tomo are Japanese, aren't they?

See more grammar tables (pdf - 34k)
Download Catherine's full grammar explanation (pdf - 37k)
Hear more question tags (mp3 - 500kb). Try repeating the questions after you hear them.



Now it's your turn to practise using tag questions. Go to our first quiz page here.

Meet us				Useful Links				More programmes
Catherine and William				Question Tags on Learn it More from Learn It Flatmates - Question Tags The English Studio Language School* *The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites				Next, we're looking at the pronunciation of question tags. Homepage and archive