Question tags after negative statements
Add question tags to the following statements.
1 You aren't afraid of snakes……………
2 Ann isn't at home……………… ……
3 You don't know French………………
4 Tom didn't see her……………………
5 This isn't yours………………………
6 Mary wasn't angry……………………
7 Bill hasn't had breakfast………………
8 You won't tell anyone………………….
9 I didn't wake you up……………………
10 Tom doesn't like oysters……………….
11 You don't want to sell the house……….
12 It doesn't hurt………………………….
13 People shouldn't drink and drive……………
14 You aren't going alone………………………
15 They couldn't pay the rent……………………
16 You don't agree with Bill…………………….
17 There wasn't a lot to do……………………
18 I needn't say anything………………………
19 That wasn't Ann on the phone……………………
20 You didn't do it on purpose………………………….
21 This won't take long…………………………………
22 She doesn't believe you………………….
23 It didn't matter very much……………….
24 He shouldn't put so much salt in it…………………….
25 Mary couldn't leave the children alone………………
26 You aren't doing anything tonight…………….
27 You wouldn't mind helping me with this……………
28 George hadn't been there before……………
29 The children weren't surprised………………….

22 The twins used to play rugby……………………….
23 Tom might be at home now…………………
24 We must hurry………………………
25 You'd been there before……………………
26 You'd like a drink……………………
27 The boys prefer a cooked breakfast………………….
28 Mary ought to cook it for them…………………………….
29 That was Ann on the phone………………………
30 The Smiths need two cars…………….
31 You'll help me…………………
32 He used to eat raw fish…………………
33 There'11 be plenty for everyone………………
34 You'd better wait for Bill……………….
35 You'd come if I needed help……………
36 You could come at short notice…………………
Question tags: mixed
Note that a statement containing words such as none, nobody, hardly/hardly any etc. is
treated as a negative statement:
He hardly ever makes a mistake, does he?
When the subject is nobody/anybody/everybody etc., the pronoun they is used in the tag:
Nobody liked the play, did they?
Add question tags to the following statements.
1 You take sugar in tea…………………
2 But you don't take it in coffee……………………
3 The lift isn't working today……………………
4 It never works very well………………………
5 The area was evacuated at once(sơ tán)………………………
6 There was no panic(hốt hoảng)…………………….
7 Though everybody realized the danger……………
8 There was a lot of noise……………….

Exercise 12 1 are you 2 is she 3 do you 4 did he 5 is it 6 was she 7 has he 8 will
you 9 did 1 10 does he II do you 12 does it 13 should they 14 are you 15 could
they 16 do you
17 was there 18 need 1 19 was it 20 did you 21 will it 22 does she 23 did it 24
should he 25 could she 26 are you 27 would you 28 had he 29 were they 30
would you 31 does he 32 has he 33 could he 34 need 1 35 were there 36 was it
Exercise 13 1can't they 2 isn't he 3 didn't he 4 haven't they 5 wasn't he 6
shouldn't he
7 couldn't it 8 isn't he 9 isn't it 10 can't he 11 won't it 12 doesn't she 13 hasn't she
14 didn't
they 15 doesn't she 16 doesn't he 17 didn't he 18 don't they 19 haven't 1 20 hasn't
he
21 isn't she 22 didn't they 23 mightn't he 24 mustn't we 25 hadn't you 26 wouldn't
you
27 don't they 28 oughtn't she 29 wasn't it 30 don't they 31 won't you 32 didn't he
33 won't there 34 hadn't you 35 wouldn't you 36 couldn't you
Exercise 14 1 don't you 2 do you 3 is it 4 does it 5 wasn't it 6 was there 7 didn't
they
8 wasn't there 9 did they 10 does she 11 doesn't she 12 wouldn't she 13 didn't he
14 did he 15 wasn't she 16 oughtn't he 17 did they 18 do they 19 can't they 20
does he 21 is it 22 did it 23 aren't they 24 hadn't we 25 wouldn't it 26 would it 27
isn't it 28 wouldn't she
29 shouldn't they 30 weren't they 31 didn't she 32 does he '33 didn't there 34 is
there
35 will he 36 does it