Question Tags | Learn English | Grammar

[loloutnow]

I FELT LIKE A TEACHER TAUGHT ME..! THANKS BRO..!..>!

[TheNightSmily]

soll ich einschlafen oder was?????

[miryeung]

Thx~ This is awesom, isn`t it?

[riodelavida]

thanks



[wwwtaoxanhful]

wao......good!

[ToddOwns96]

I always say "Something's wrong, isn't there?" But then again, I'm American, not British.

[crazydevil197]

Now lets learn the word ''Fuck''.

[chupuiman]

It's very useful and clear! Thanks so much!!

[jpablo303]

this is a shit !

[mohalch]

thx for the lesson. it's really clear. great job

[PoisonedShaggy101]

oh ma frigin god, I cannot thank you enough for making these videos for letting me pass the test :)

[exodo200]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[tmfch]

I love your work, it has all the information I need for my English classes. I'll use it tomorrow and thanks a lot for share your effort with us.

[lilianamaya]

Hummm.........great channel! i will put in my favorites!

Thank you for sharing!

[snowblanco]

very proffesional. kudos 2 u

[luigiperso]

excellent lesson, thanks

[kwiatekczerwony]

Wspaniale zrobione video ***** pozdrawiam

[kisybrazil]

Thanks a lot

good job!

[kwiatekczerwony]

Wspaniale zrobione video ***** dobranoc

[michaelplaying]

Very nice video.

Thank you for sharing.

Friendly greetings,

Michael

[silviajanette]

Richard, you're the best...aren't you? ;0)

[cliffenigma]

This videoclip satisfies all the needs of a learner of English struggling with the question tags. It is so comprehensive, so spectacular. I admire your side ramarks on the left-hand-side as well. The colours, pics and sentences are so well selected to emphasize the essence of this grammatical phenomenon. 8 and a half minutes pleasure on question tags!!!!! Congratulations!

[siemprenadia]

Thanks for this video...I agree with you ..I use ..aren't I ?for.. I'm a teacher ...aren't I ? ut's correct and easy ..to pronounce .

[kwiatekczerwony]

super zrobione video ***** pozdrawiam

[rutsableich]

Thank you for your answer. Everything is clear now!!

[Linguaspectrum]

You're welcome. I have also put additional material for this video at my website. Follow the links in the video description, or click the Linguaspectrum logo at the top of the page.

Best wishes,

Richard

[tagrabo]

Thank you very much!!

You're a great teacher!

Good job!!

I'm from Brazil :))

[Annie0854]

Great work Richard. Very helpful little secrets for those who want to improve . Thank you!

[rockmusicM]

every day I learn more and more

in my English class I haven't studied this lesson yet, but now I know about question tags.

great job, thanks

[whatdaisyknew]

thank u richard.

appreciate u work.

smiles.

[rutsableich]

Oops! The best, not they best...

[rutsableich]

I normally avoid using tag questions because of the difficulty:) But now that I have seen this information, it is clearer. However, Richard, I am confused in these two sentences: Why: "I suppose they have eat, don't they?" instead of (I would have said) "I suppose they have eaten, haven't they?"

In "I am a teacher, aren't I? , why "aren't" for "I"?

Thank you for this post. You are they best, aren't you? :)

[Linguaspectrum]

Hi and thanks for your comments. Thanks also for pointing out the typo in "I suppose they have ___ eat, don't they?" It should of course say, I suppose they have to eat, don't they? I have added an annotation to correct this error. So much information and my brain just didn't pick this one up. I guess you are the best, not me, aren't you?

[Linguaspectrum]

As for "I am a teacher..." we could actually say, "am I not?" for the negative question tag, but as question tags are informal we use "aren't I?" This is odd, isn't it? We have contracted forms for all negatives in the verb to be except I am - you aren't, s/he isn't, we aren't, they aren't - but we don't have I amn't!

[Linguaspectrum]

English doesn't like the two nasal consonants m and n next to each other. In some Scottish and Irish dialects the word amn't does exist, so they might well say "I am a teacher, amn't I?" My dialect forbids it, but allows "ain't" in very informal speech. I might say, I'm a teacher, ain't I?" but I'm more likely to say "aren't I?"

[coolbluelights]

@Linguaspectrum this is funny when I was a little kid I used to say Amn't I all the time! lol I just invented it myself

[Linguaspectrum]

@coolbluelights It's weird that we don't have this form, isn't it?

[coolbluelights]

@Linguaspectrum Indeed! hm I wish there were videos like the ones you make for German because I am trying to learn it^^