A question tag or tag question is a grammatical structure in which a declarative statement or an imperative is turned into a question by adding an interrogative fragment (the "tag"). For example, in the sentence "You're John, aren't you?", the statement "You're John" is turned into a question by the tag "aren't you". The term "question tag" is generally preferred by British grammarians, while their American counterparts prefer "tag question".
Uses
In most languages, tag questions are more common in colloquial spoken usage than in formal written usage. They can be an indicator of politen...
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?
pairing a positive statement with a negative question, or
We don't need that, do we?
You don't ...46
When shopping for a new desktop computer, I'd like to get one that allows me to use two monitors. Is that something that most current-generation video cards can do (in late 2012), or do I need to search for a specific graphics card, or specific attributes for a card?
I've Googled the question b...
I think it is because First Posts and Late Answers Review tasks not only allows you to make necessary edits as you see fit but as well as upvoting/downvoting questions or answers which you'd not be able to do efficiently if you have reached your vote limit.
Low Quality Posts, Suggested Edits an...
The new design just launched for both the parent site and Meta. Congratulations!
If you see any styling or css bugs, please start a new post, and tag it with "design" and "bug" please. This way it'd be easier for me to track and fix.
Congrats again, and thank you for your design input and suppo...
