Exercise (3) :

Read the following statement and add the questions – tag:

a) I am leaving within an hour,…………………

b) He needs to sell his share first , …………………

c) I used to go to cinema weekly when I was young ,…………………

d) Speak to him in Germany , …………………

e) Let’s complete our job , …………………

f) Let us settle this matter ,…………………

g) They went out just now , …………………

h) You needn’t play football now , …………………

i) They delayed the aeroplane ,…………………

j) He has got to leave at once , …………………

k) You will have some more tea , …………………

l) You had a seminar yesterday ,…………………

m) They don’t act like that , …………………

You can now fill in the blanks in the following statements to get the general rules for adding the question – tags .

1) An affirmative statement has a ------------- tag .

2) A negative statement has an ------------ tag .

3) Helping (auxiliary ) verbs are repeated in the ----------- .

4) Other verbs ( Ordinary verbs or full verbs ) have do , does in the present , and -------------- in the past.

5) Question – tag for an imperative is made by shall or ------------- , the tag may be positive or ------------------ .

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