tag question

He adds a tag question to his statement to make the listener talk.

他在陈述句后加反诘问句以使听者开口讲话.

If the first part of the sentence is negative, the tag question is usually affirmative.

如果句子是以否定句开始的, 那附加疑问部分通常是肯定句.

The English tag question is an independent grammar unit with the interrogative surface structure.

英语附加疑问句是具有疑问句表层结构的独立语法单位.

Each tag question must agree in tense and subject with its preceding statement.

每个反诘问句都要在时态和主语上与前面的陈述句保持一致.

This is a tag question.

这是附加问句.

If the first part of the sentence is affirmative, the tag question is usually negative.

如果句子是以肯定句开始的, 那附加疑问通常使用否定句.

The tag question is a very common linguistic phenomenon in oral English.

附加疑问句是英语口语中很常见的一种语言现象.

A person uses a tag question because he isn't sure of what he has said.

人们用反诘问句因为对自己刚说的话不太肯定.

The second word of a tag question is always a pronoun.

反诘问句的第二个词通常是一个代词.

A name is never repeated in a tag question.

在反诘问句中名称是绝对不可以重复的.