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QUESTION TAGS or TAG QUESTIONS

QUESTION TAGS or TAG QUESTIONS. Cecília Hartt. Definição:. Trata-se de uma pergunta curta, usando apenas o verbo auxiliar e o pronome pessoal, no final de uma frase afirmativa ou negativa que tem o objetivo de confirmar a afirmação anterior. Usos:.

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QUESTION TAGS or TAG QUESTIONS

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  1. QUESTION TAGSor TAG QUESTIONS Cecília Hartt

  2. Definição: • Trata-se de uma pergunta curta, usando apenas o verbo auxiliar e o pronome pessoal, no final de uma frase afirmativa ou negativa que tem o objetivo de confirmar a afirmação anterior.

  3. Usos: • Linguagem Coloquial: usado na fala ou na escrita informal • Objetivo: Solicitar confirmação do que foi dito anteriormente • Estrutura: Usa-se o mesmo verbo auxiliar da frase principal, no mesmo tempo verbal da mesma, na sua forma contrária (se a frase foi afirmativa, a pergunta final será negativa e vice-versa.)

  4. Exemplos no tempo Presente: • She is a teacher, isn’t she? • They are Brazilians, aren’t they? • You speak English, don’t you? • They live in Brazil, don’t they? • She has a car, doesn‘t she? • He doesn’t have children, does he? • They don’t smoke, do they? • You can drive, can’t you?

  5. Exemplos no tempo Passado: • She went to the USA last year, didn’t she? • They didn’t buy a new car, did they? • He couldn’t travel last holiday, could he? • They got married last year, didn’t they? • She was in a meeting yesterday, wasn’t she? • He couldn’t speak English very well, could he? • He wasn’t feeling very well yesterday, was he?

  6. Exemplos no tempo Futuro: • She will buy a new car next year, won’t she? • They are going to buy a new house soon, aren’t they?

  7. Exemplos com o verbo There to be ( haver): • There is a problem here, isn’t there? • There were a lot of people at the party, weren’t there? • There wasn’t anything wrong with the food, was there? • There aren’t any new books available at the moment, are there?

  8. Exemplos com o verbo “Have” como verbo auxiliar e verbo principal: • “Have” – verbo auxiliar: • They have just arrived, haven’t they? • Have” – verbo principal: • They have a dog, don’t they?

  9. Usos c/ Sujeito: Somebody/Someone/Nobody/No one/ Everybody/Everyone: • Pronome da Question Tag= THEY • Somebody called him, didn’t they? • Nobody saw her, didn’t they? • Everybody knows that, don’t they?

  10. Usos c/ Never/No/ Nothing/ Nobody/Hardly/ Scarcely/Little: • Question Tag= Afirmativa ( já que estas palavras são negativas) • They never write to me, do they? • She hardly ever travels abroad now, does she? • They scarcely see each other, do they?

  11. Usos c/ Nothing iniciando a sentença: • O pronome da question tag é “IT”: • Nothing is the same nowadays, isn’t it?

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