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El verbo auxiliar APARECE en la oración.
El verbo auxiliar NO APARECE en la oración.
Casos especiales (handle with care)
Verbo ‘to be’ (present & past continuous)
- He is sleeping, isn’t he?
- You are working this week, aren’t you?
- She was ill last week, wasn’t she?
- They were eating, weren’t they?
Present & past perfect
- You have met my sister, haven’t you?
- She has eaten my cake, hasn’t she?
- You had spoken to Mary, hadn’t you?
Will & modal verbs
- It will be fine, won’t it?
- She won’t tell anybody, will she?
- You can’t take sugar, can you?
- I should study hard, shouldn’t I?
- He must be so sad, musn’t he?
Present & past simple
- She runs really fast, doesn’t she? (She does run)
- They live in Belgium, don’t they? (They do live)
- You ate my biscuit, didn’t you? (You did eat)
- It rained last night, didn’t it? (It did rain)
¡Lo que más nos confunde!
Have, have to & have got
- He has a hamster, doesn’t he?
- He has got a hamster, hasn’t he?
- They have to eat, don’t they?
- They have got to eat, haven’t they?
Cuando have got es el verbo de la oración principal, la question tag se forma conhave/haven’t o has/hasn’t.
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Con ‘I am’, siempre se usa la question tag ‘aren’t I?
I am the best student in the class, aren’t I?
Con el imperativo siempre se usa ‘will you’, tanto si la oración tiene sentido positivo o negativo.
Pass me that pen, will you?
Don’t be late, will you?
Con la expresión ‘Let’s’, siempre se usa el question tag ‘shall we’:
Let’s have lunch, shall we?
Let’s not argue, shall we?
Con ‘there is’ y ‘there are’, la question tag se forma usando ‘there’ en lugar de un pronombre:
There isn’t any bread left, is there?
There is plenty of time, isn’t there?
Si quieres seguir practicando, puedes hacerlo con los tests de:
También tienes aquí nuestros previos posts de esta serie de ‘Test your English’:prepositions, spelling, countable & uncountable nouns.
You get it now, don’t you? Esperamos que sí, pero si ves que hay algo que no te queda claro, no te vayas a la cama con la duda. Déjanos un comentario y te responderá ‘teacher Bartlett’ a la velocidad de un guepardo (cheetah). ![🐆](https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/svg/1f406.svg)
¡Hasta la semana que viene!
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