English Winners, I'm going to talk to you
about something that you're going to
need to know when you're listening and
when you're speaking: tag questions. 'It's
a nice day outside, isn't it?' That 'isn't
it?' at the end is a tag, and when you use
a tag in a question, it's called a tag
question. Now there are four reasons to
use tag questions: Number one: when you
know the answer to the question already
but you want to start a conversation
about it. Two: When you are in a conversation
with somebody else and you want the
other person to keep talking. Three: To
question someone's decisions or
intentions... what are they trying to do,
and why ? And number four: to ask someone's
opinion on something, before you ask even
deeper questions about that subject. Some
examples include: 'The news has everybody
stressed out these days, doesn't it?' 'The
new account is exciting, isn't it?' 'You
don't really mean the thing you said
earlier, did you?' 'You're not coming, are
you?' So the idea is: a positive statement
will go with a negative tag, like this:
'The new account is exciting isn't it?', and
a negative statement - don't, isn't, won't...
things like that - will go with a positive
tag at the end, like this: 'You're not
coming, are you?' So how do you answer a
tag question? Well it's pretty simple.
Just 'yes' or 'no', and then sometimes people
will use a pronoun like 'it' followed by a
a be statement, like 'it is', 'it isn't', 'it
does', 'it doesn't', 'it has', 'it hasn't'... things
like that. So, 'The news has everybody
stressed out these days, doesn't it?'
Answer: 'Yes it does. I'm especially
concerned about the Middle
East.' 'The new account is really exciting,
isn't it?' Answer: 'Not really' or No, it
isn't.' The earlier example again: 'You
don't really mean the thing you said
earlier, did you?' Answer: 'Yes I did.' And
lastly, 'You're not coming, are you?' Answer:
'No, I'm not', or 'Yes, I am', if you are. So, you
can answer yes or no, and then 'it is', 'it
isn't' or 'they are', 'they aren't -
however the pronouns are appropriate for
the question - and then at the end of 'it
is', 'it isn't,' you can offer more
information if you want to keep the
conversation going.
Usually, having a good flow to a
conversation is important to developing
good interpersonal relations - to making
good friendships - so try to make
conversations flow smoothly if you want
those relationships to continue. So here
is how you can use tag questions to
start conversations. After all, starting
conversations is sometimes the hardest
part, isn't it?
That's where we have the most
nervousness, and so now you can use tag
questions to start your conversations.
Imagine you're in line for food at a
restaurant. You can be like: 'The food
smells really good, doesn't it?' Another
situation: you see someone familiar at a
conference - that means you think you know
them - you can ask: 'Hey, I've seen you
before, haven't I?' Another situation: Let's
say you're outside on the street, and
it's very cold because it's winter. You
could say: 'It's really cold outside, isn't
it?' So the situation is: you're in a long
meeting. It's drawn out, and you're getting
[yawns] tired. You want the meeting tp end. You
could say something discreet like: 'This
is the last item on our agenda, isn't it?'
And if you see someone you haven't met
before, you could say: 'We haven't met
before yet, have we?' And usually something
very simple like that can
start an introduction conversation, like:
"Hi, my name is David,' or, 'Hi, my name is
Steve," or 'Hi, my name is Barbara.' - anything
like that - to start the conversation. Just
a simple: 'We haven't met before yet, have
we?' Another situation: you could be at a
shopping mall with a friend and you find
some jeans on sale and you could say
'This pair of jeans isn't expensive at
all, is it?' If you see a child in the
grocery store crying really loudly, and
there's no parents near the child, you
could say to somebody: 'That child really
needs his mother, doesn't he?' Imagine
you're drinking coffee with your friends,
and your friend drinks some coffee and
then they wince - like they show some pain
on their face - you could say: 'It isn't
that hot, is it?' or 'It's hot, isn't it?'
One of them says you want to make sure
the person is wincing because it's hot,
and then in the other one - 'It's hot isn't
it?' - that means you know it's hot and you
want the other person to talk about that.
So that's it for our conversation on tag
questions. This should help you start
conversations if you were a little
nervous before. So I've put up two links:
one is an idiom playlist, and the other
is a listening playlist, and I'll put this
video into the listening playlist and
- maybe later - a conversation playlist that
I will start later. Please SUBSCRIBE, and
until then, keep on winning, English
Winners. See you later.
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