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:
• 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.)
Exemplos no tempo Presente:
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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?
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
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he?
He wasn’t feeling very well yesterday, was
he?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Usos c/ Nothing iniciando a
sentença:
• O pronome da question tag é “IT”:
– Nothing is the same nowadays, isn’t it?