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QUESTION TAGS WITH THE VERB "TO BE"
Dialog: "You're joking, aren't you?"

Question tags (or tag questions) are short questions that come at the end of an affirmative or negative sentence. It can be a real question (when your voice goes up) or just a confirmation (when your voice goes down). In this lesson we're focusing on its use with the verb to be. Check out some examples:

FORM:

VERB TO BE / VERB TO BE + NOT + SUBJECT PRONOUN + ?

VERB TO BE + NOT / VERB TO BE + SUBJECT PRONOUN + ?

1) When we have an affirmative sentence we use a negative tag:

• She is coming to see you, isn't she? (Ela está vindo te ver, não está?)
• They were in Canada last week, weren't they? (Eles estavam no Canadá na semana passada, não estavam?)
• Jack is on the phone with Laura, isn't he? (O Mark está no telefone com Laura, não está?)

2) When we have a negative sentence we use an affirmative tag:

• Your grandparents aren't very old, are they? (Os seus avós não são muito velhos, são?)
• Mark wasn't going to tell me the truth, was he? (O Mark não ia me contar a verdade, ia?)
• Jessica wasn't at the party, was she? (A Jessica não estava na festa, estava?)