Add question tags to the following statements.

1.    It is raining, —————–?

a)    Is it
b)    Isn’t it
c)    Does it
d)    Doesn’t it

2.    He knows her, ——————-?

a)    Does he
b)    Knows he
c)    Doesn’t he
d)    Doesn’t her

3.    John will come, ———————-?

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.

Note that but is often used instead of no in disagreements with a question or an assumption.

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.

In question tags we use the following patterns:

Verbs in the simple present and simple past tense do not consist of auxiliary verbs. Their negatives are made by the addition of the anomalous finites do not, does not or did not before the main verb.