Tagged Questions
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Why do positive and negative variants of the same question elicit the same answer? [duplicate]
In common American English usage, these two questions elicit the same response:
Do you have a ticket?
Don't you have a ticket?
These are the usual answers (I was going to say "possible answers" ...
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You have no idea, (…): “do you” or “don't you”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Question tags — “did you” vs. “didn’t you”
Which one is correct?
option 1:
You have no idea, don't you?
or, option 2:
You have no idea, do you?
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Question tag for a sentence starting with “few”
Which is correct?
Few people knew the way, didn't they?
Few people knew the way, did they?
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Tag Questions “is he not”
"He is happy, isn't he?"
If you did not use the contraction isn't he, in the question above, would the correct sentence be:
"He is happy, is he not?"
"He is happy, is not he?"
Sentence #1 seems ...
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Question tags — “did you” vs. “didn't you”
Typically, when we ask for confirmation/denial of a statement, we say something like the following:
We turn left here, don't we?
You have a cat, don't you?
We've met before, haven't we?
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How to ask a question to confirm a negative situation?
For example, I want to make sure that Tom was not in Professor X's class. However, I can't ask:
Wasn't Tom in Professor X's class last semester?
Because that means I think Tom WAS in Professor ...
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Answering questions with a negation at the end
How are you supposed to answer a question like this (assuming you're from Minnesota)?
You are a Minnesotan, no?
Are you supposed to give the same answer as your answer to this question or give ...
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About question tags
He did nothing*.
Which is the correct question tag for the sentence above?
didn't he?
did he?
What is the effect of using nothing for negation?
