Sentence Functions: Advanced


Tag Questions

  • Tag questions are very common, especially in dialogue. They are questions which come at the end of a sentence, and their precise meaning in speech can vary according to the intonation used.

    Consider the different ways the tag question, didn't you? could be expressed in the following sentence.

    You knew about this, didn't you?








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