Después de haber aprendido los Adverbs of Frequency, en esta lección aprederemos Tag Questions.
Las Preguntas Tag (Tag Questions) convierten una declaración en una pregunta. A menudo se usan para verificar información que creemos que sabemos que es cierta.
Las Preguntas Tag (Tag Questions) se hacen usando un verbo auxiliar (por ejemplo: be or have) y un pronombre sujeto (por ejemplo: I, you, she). Las etiquetas de preguntas negativas generalmente se contraen: It’s warm today, isn’t it (not «is it not»)
Por lo general, si la cláusula principal es positiva, la etiqueta de pregunta es negativa, y si la cláusula principal es negativa, es positiva. Por ejemplo: It’s cold (positive), isn’t it (negative)? And: It isn’t cold (negative), is it (positive)?
Si la cláusula principal tiene un verbo auxiliar, usa el mismo verbo en la pregunta de etiqueta. Si no hay un verbo auxiliar (en presente simple y pasado simple) usa do / does / did (como cuando hace una pregunta normal).
Hay una extraña excepción: la etiqueta de la pregunta después de I am es aren’t I. Por ejemplo: I’m in charge of the food, aren’t I?
Oraciones positivas, con etiquetas negativas
| Present simple ‘be’ | She’s Italian, isn’t she? |
| Present simple other verbs | They live in London, don’t they? |
| Present continuous | We’re working tomorrow, aren’t we? |
| Past simple ‘be’ | It was cold yesterday, wasn’t it? |
| Past simple other verbs | He went to the party last night, didn’t he? |
| Past continuous | We were waiting at the station, weren’t we? |
| Present perfect | They’ve been to Japan, haven’t they? |
| Present perfect continuous | She’s been studying a lot recently, hasn’t she? |
| Past perfect | He had forgotten his wallet, hadn’t he? |
| Past perfect continuous | We’d been working, hadn’t we? |
| Future simple | She’ll come at six, won’t she? |
| Future continuous | They’ll be arriving soon, won’t they? |
| Future perfect | They’ll have finished before nine, won’t they? |
| Future perfect continuous | She’ll have been cooking all day, won’t she? |
| Modals | He can help, can’t he? |
| Modals | John must stay, mustn’t he? |
Oraciones negativas, con etiquetas positivas.
| Present simple ‘be’ | We aren’t late, are we? |
| Present simple other verbs | She doesn’t have any children, does she? |
| Present continuous | The bus isn’t coming, is it? |
| Past simple ‘be’ | She wasn’t at home yesterday, was she? |
| Past simple other verbs | They didn’t go out last Sunday, did they? |
| Past continuous | You weren’t sleeping, were you? |
| Present perfect | She hasn’t eaten all the cake, has she? |
| Present perfect continuous | He hasn’t been running in this weather, has he? |
| Past perfect | We hadn’t been to London before, had we? |
| Past perfect continuous | You hadn’t been sleeping, had you? |
| Future simple | They won’t be late, will they? |
| Future continuous | He won’t be studying tonight, will he? |
| Future perfect | She won’t have left work before six, will she? |
| Future perfect continuous | He won’t have been travelling all day, will he? |
| Modals | She can’t speak Arabic, can she? |
| Modals | They mustn’t come early, must they? |
En la próxima lección aprenderemos Imperatives.
