A tag question is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause. The resulting speech act comprises...
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Look up Tag, TAG, tag, tág, tåg, or tagging in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tag, TAG, or tagging may refer to: Tag (graffiti), a form of graffiti signature...
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complex question. Consider a statement (A) Somebody killed the cat and several questions related to it. (B) John killed the cat, did he? (tag question) (C)...
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topic previously discussed. Can also be used to soften a question. ma (嗎/吗): Forms a tag question. A major use of sentence-final particles in Mandarin Chinese...
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Interrogative (redirect from Declarative question)
Negative questions are formed from negative sentences, as in "Aren't you coming?" and "Why does he not answer?" Tag questions are questions "tagged" onto...
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Georgian grammar (section Tag questions)
second position within the sentence. Comparing statement, yes/no question, and tag question expecting an affirmative answer: Dghes k'argi amindia, 'The weather...
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locative phrase, such as There is a problem, isn't there?, in which the tag question isn't there? seems to imply that the subject is the adverb there, also...
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equipment. Usually when a person is tagged, the tagger says, "It!" or "Tag, you're 'It'!" The last one tagged during tag is "It" for the next round. The game...
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Hungarian grammar (section Tag questions)
ment el. ("No, he hasn't left." Literally "No, not [He] went away.") Tag questions are made by adding ugye to the beginning or end of a statement: Elment...
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abrupt discourse shift.' Filler (linguistics) So (word) Speech disfluency Tag question Carol Lynn, Moder; Aida Martinovic-Zic (2004). Discourse Across Languages...
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