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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

second position within the sentence. Comparing statement, yes/no question, and tag question expecting an affirmative answer: Dghes k'argi amindia, 'The weather...

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...

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...

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...

abrupt discourse shift.' Filler (linguistics) So (word) Speech disfluency Tag question Carol Lynn, Moder; Aida Martinovic-Zic (2004). Discourse Across Languages...