🔼TAG QUESTIONS🔽

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The tag questions are small sentences or questions (mini-questions) that are placed at the end of an affirmative or negative sentence and that are generally intended to confirm or deny the content of the sentence itself.

Tag questions (or question tags) turn a statement into a question. They are often used for checking information that we think we know is true.

Tag questions are made using an auxiliary verb (for example: be or have) and a subject pronoun (for example: I, you, she). Negative question tags are usually contracted: It's warm today, isn't it (not 'is it not').

➽ Grammatical Rules.

TRES REGLAS BASICAS QUE DEBES RECORDAR
1.	Los tag questions utilizan siempre los verbos auxiliares.
2.	Con oraciones afirmativas utilizamos un tag question en NEGATIVO.
3.	Con oraciones negativas utilizamos un tag question en AFIRMATIVO.

➔ You speak Spanish, don't you?
(Con esta pregunta indico que pienso que hablas español pero quiero confirmar que es asi.)

To form a "tag question" you start with the sentence that you think is true ("You speak Spanish" in the example above). The "tag" (the part of the sentence that makes it a question) is formed using an auxiliary verb in the negative if the sentence was affirmative or an auxiliary verb in the affirmative if the sentence was negative. See the examples in the table below.

Oraciones Afirmativas  (El verbo auxiliar en el "tag" es negativo.)	Oraciones Negativas  (El verbo auxiliar en el "tag" es afirmativo.)
To be
You're a teacher, aren't you?	You aren't a teacher, are you?
He's tired, isn't he?	He isn't tired, is he?
Tiempo Presente
You speak English, don't you?	You don't speak English, do you?
He swims, doesn't he?	He doesn't swim, does he?
Tiempo Pasado
He went to school, didn't he?	He didn't go to school, did he?
Presente Perfecto
You have finished, haven't you?	You haven't finished, have you?
He has left, hasn't he?	He hasn't left, has he?
Futuro
She will cook, won't she?	She won't cook, will she?

➡ Examples.

Afirmative: 

• Your brother is older than you, isn’t he?
• You can help me, can’t you?
• John is getting married, isn’t he?
• You worked yesterday, didn’t you?
• Sarah likes ice cream, doesn’t she?

Negative:

• You’re not from here, are you?
• Kate’s not American, is she?
• Peter never liked Susan, did he?
• They didn’t go to class yesterday, did they?
• You can’t dance, can you?