🏷️ Grammar B1-19: Question tags: basic

The nineteenth material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series. It treats the question tag as a machine, not a list: find the auxiliary (or borrow do, does or did when the sentence has only a main verb), flip the polarity — positive statement, negative tag; negative statement, positive tag — and end with the pronoun that matches the subject, so Maya becomes she, the keys become they, and there stays there. Two form tables let the statement write its own tag, four worked examples run You’re coming, Maya plays chess, They didn’t call and We can park here through the machine step by step, and a dedicated table teaches the four tags you simply learn: aren’t I, shall we, will you after imperatives, and isn’t there. A compare-and-verdict pair separates the tag’s two jobs — checking what you already believe against genuinely asking — through context alone, and the meaning trap of answering a negative-statement tag (No, I didn’t means I did NOT forget) gets its own note, seven meaning-only items and a trap box. Practice is spread over sets of eight, seven, eight and eight items, every answer explained, plus ten statements to sort by which way their tag will flip, six real learner errors to repair, and four watch-out traps including the universal isn’t it and the same-polarity tag that sounds suspicious. A tag-dense backstage dialogue before a school talent show shows ten tags working in natural conversation, each one tappable. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the one-statement board move, the stuck-learner rescue, the intonation work the page cannot print, and Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.