Nível Avançado › Booking a Flight

QUESTION TAGS
Dialog: "You don't have any non-stop flights, do you?"

"Question tags" are short questions used at the end of affirmative or negative statements.  It can be a real question (when your voice goes up) or just a confirmation (when your voice goes down). A negative question tag follows an affirmative statement; and an affirmative question tag follows a negative statement.

For statements in the present and past simple, the auxiliaries "do", "does" or "did" are used to form the question tag.

• You work early tomorrow, don't you?
• They do not enjoy action films, do they?
• Mom has a meeting with our teacher today, doesn't she?
• This flight doesn't have a layover, does it?
• Dad didn't want another tie for Father's Day, did he?
• They went to the party last night, didn't they?

For statements using the verb "to be", the question tag is formed using this verb.

• You are from Shanghai, aren't you?
• She isn't a very good actress, is she?
• Jefferson is working on the project right now, isn't he?
• You aren't planning on coming to the meeting, are you?
• Your father was one of the best soccer players in the world, wasn't he?
• They weren't on time again, were they?

For statements with other verb tenses, the question tag is formed using the "first auxiliary" verb used in the statement.

• You have been to New York before, haven't you?
• Mary has not come home yet, has she?
• This will cost a lot of money, won't it?
• Mike will never be the same again after the accident, will he?
• We have been working on this for hours, haven't we?
• They haven't been studying very long, have they?
• They had seen the movie before, hadn't they?
• The flight had been going smoothly, hadn't it?