Writing
Grammar Booster

Tag/Tail questions and Disjunctive Questions
Question tags are short questions placed at the end of the statement.
Formation
If the statement is positive, the question tag is negative. If the statement is negative, the question tag is positive.
Examples
She is coming to work, isn’t she? You can drive a car, can’t you? They can’t help us, can they? I am ready, aren’t I? (is common in spoken English) or I’m ready, am I not? (is formal English)
Open the window, will you? | Let’s go to the concert, shall we?
Sentences with negative words take affirmative tags.
Note: The tag pronoun for this/that = it The tag pronoun for these/those = they For everything = it For everyone = they They is usually used in a tag to refer to everyone, everybody, someone, somebody, no one, nobody.
Nothing is wrong, is it? Nobody called on the phone, did they?

1. PW. Complete the questions looking through the Grammar Booster.
1. My parents are great and very broad-minded,___?
2. Mehriban never shows her feelings,___?
3. Let’s go to the library,___?
4. Don’t be late for the lessons,___?
5. Jessica had to come to the party,___?
6. The country spends a lot of money per person on health care,___?
7. People in some countries nod their heads to mean “yes”,___?
8. You can get good medical care in our country,___?
9. She is ready,___?
10. My brother couldn’t waste the money he had,___?
2. PW. Correct the wrong tag questions and compare with your partner's.
1. Social services do their best to cheer the elderly up, doesn’t it?
2. The country always spends a lot of money on health care, don’t they?
3. Everybody can get medical care in our country, can they?
4. Children always need care, aren’t they?
5. You should go in for sports, do you?
6. We always want to have good families, didn’t they?
7. My friends have to go to the Children’s Home, haven’t they?