Tujifunze na kueleweshana kuhusu 'Question tags'

[Giambatista Vico]

Question tags are very common in spoken language or colloquial languages( informal language) and are added to the end of statements in order to form questions.
They are used to express a weak form of question and to invite confirmation of some fact already known by the speaker.

Forms of question tags
1. The choice of auxiliary verb
2. The negation

3. Intonation
To be continued......

CHOICE OF HELPING VERB

The English tag question is made up of helping verb and pronoun, where by the helping verb has to agree with tense, modality and aspect. Under this, helping verb is used in its respective tense.
I come to school, don't I?
She did not run quickly, did she?
Juma has already done his job, hasn't he?

Note: If the sentence is in positive form, thus its question tag should be in negative and vice versa is true to negative sentence. All these fall under the so called balanced question tags.

Balanced and unbalanced tag questions
To be continued..

 

[Chiwa]

teh.teh.. hizi nafikiri hata nikienda ulaya sintazijua! hapa nikiri ni kilaza toka form two

 

[Giambatista Vico]

teh.teh.. hizi nafikiri hata nikienda ulaya sintazijua! hapa nikiri ni kilaza toka form two

Utazielewa ndugu

 

[kurlzawa]

Tatizo la kukwepa umande

teh.teh.. hizi nafikiri hata nikienda ulaya sintazijua! hapa nikiri ni kilaza toka form two

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[Hazchem plate]

Aren't you?
Isn't she?
Won't they?
Acha kabisa

 

[Don Clericuzio]

Hapo ndo ulipoishia?

 

[Karucee]

Mwenye ile audio ya question tags atupie please

Tuendelee kuburudika huku tukijifundisha.

 

[Giambatista Vico]

Kesho wadau ntaendeleza, ngoja nicheki mechi ya Man city kwanza

 

[Giambatista Vico]

Hapa

Hapo ndo ulipoishia?

Hapana man

 

[Giambatista Vico]

UNBALANCED TAG QUESTIONS
This is the type of sentences that are in one aspect, that is
If the sentence is positive its question tag is positive.
If the sentence is negative its tag question is negative.
E.g be careful, will you?
Iam lazy, AmI?
That food is not good, isn't it?

INTONATION
Question tags on intonation to follow....

 

[Giambatista Vico]

In English question tag may have a falling or rising intonation parttern, thus in intonation the meaning of question tag depends on how it is said. If your voice goes down at the end then you expect the other person to agree with what you are saying:
Eg You are not English, are you?
No. I'm not. (You are right)
No arrows have drawn to show falling intonation due to not having program.
Soon......

 

[Giambatista Vico]

Uses of tag questions
1.To confirm or prove
Eg you can run,can't you?
2. It is used when the subject is no body, some body, every one,some one, the pronoun "They" is applied in tag question.

Eg.Some body killed a lion, didn't they?

3. It is used with the word 'used to' didn't is used.
I used to come early, didn't I?

4. We use positive question tag after affirmative sentence to express reaction such as interest, confrontation or surprise.
Eg Iam lazy, Ami?
She is going to get married next week, is she?

Soon........

 

[squirtinator]

Jiwen't he?

 

[Khantwe]

Jiwen't he?

Mchochezin't you?

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[Superbug]

Kwanini question tag ya ï am ni arent

mfano ï am à man arent ï na kwanini isiwe amnt i

 

[Giambatista Vico]

Kwanini question tag ya ï am ni arent

mfano ï am à man arent ï na kwanini isiwe amnt i

Aren't, ain't, all are used, hii lugha siyo yetu, na kumbuka mabadilko yalifanyika kipindi cha Traditional grammar (svoca) TGG (Transformation Generative Grammar) structurism up to modern English.

 

[Giambatista Vico]

Ni makubaliano tu ya wana linguists.

 

[Giambatista Vico]

I have to end here, because no serious participation on this topic.

 

[Humble African]

You took my book. Tookn't you?

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[Giambatista Vico]

5.Affirmation tag question after the following words which contain negative information,. Eg hardly, never, we use positive tag question at the end of the sentence.
Eg. I have never completed my homework, have I?

6. It is used to search for information if we don't know the answer.
Eg You don't know where her ruler is, do you? This goes with rising intonation.

7. To approve the information we know, the falling tone is used with tag question.
Eg. The examination was simple, wasn't it?

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