Tag Questions (You’re French, aren’t you?)

Tag questions are short questions added to the end of a statement to check information or confirm something. They’re common in everyday conversation and often used to invite agreement.

How do tag questions work?

They follow this basic rule:

• Positive statement → Negative tag
  You're French, aren’t you?
• Negative statement → Positive tag
  You aren’t tired, are you?

Tag questions are formed with an auxiliary verb (be, do, have, will, etc.) and a pronoun that matches the subject. If the main sentence has no auxiliary verb, we use do/does/did.

• She likes coffee, doesn’t she?
• They didn’t call, did they?
• We were late, weren’t we?

Special case: “I am”

With “I am,” the tag is usually aren’t I (not “amn't I”):

• I’m right, aren’t I?