Add appropriate question tags to the following statements.

1. That’s the postman, …………………?

2. Not a very good novel, ………………?

3. They promised to repay us within two months ……………….?

Affirmative additions to affirmative remarks are made with the structure so + auxiliary + subject.

Read the following sentence.

You will do it, won’t you?

Aren’t I?

The question tag for I am is aren’t I, not amn’t I.

I am late, aren’t I? (NOT I am late, amn’t I?)

Imperative sentences

Disagreements with affirmative sentences are made with ‘no + pronoun + auxiliary + n’t/not’.

He is drunk. No, he isn’t.
You are joking. No, I am not.
I think she knows him. No, she doesn’t.

During conversation it is common to make a statement and then ask for confirmation. For example, in the sentence ‘It is very hot, isn’t it?’ we make a statement and then ask for confirmation. Here the later part (isn’t it?) is called a question tag.