Just to keep the ball rolling.:
Not everyone who may think they know all about question tags is really good at using those, [question tag] ?
Here are several sentences, the previous one included, to check how good you are at question tags:
She is seldom very busy, ...?
You and I both enjoy ballet, ...?
Nobody came to the meeting, ...?
There's little we can do about it, ...?
Everyone has heard this terrible news, ...?
I don’t suppose you are telling us the true version of the story, ...?
I'm not providing the answers here because those who are confident in their ability to use question tags correctly don't need those answers.
At the same time, for those who are not that confident, there're quite a few online quizzes/tests to check whether or not their guesses were right, this one for example:
https://www.liveworksheets.com/workshee ... z1505292el
Should anyone feel like sharing some examples of the really tricky, in their opinion, use of question tags, please, do come up with your examples :)
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Yety, not to you (broad, friendly smiley), but to those few who may have forgotten the two rules to be applied to this particular case, here they are:
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- sentences with negative words are considered to be negative;
- use "they" in question tags when the sentences include indefinite pronouns
(someone, somebody, everyone, everybody)
- use "they" in question tags when the sentences include indefinite pronouns
(someone, somebody, everyone, everybody)
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