Hi everyone and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy, and this is our 60th episode.

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Let's get on to today's topic of tag questions.

Tag questions are those weird questions that someone creates when they make a statement, then add a two or three word question onto it.

Here are a few examples.

Van Gogh was a French painter, wasn't he? Henry and Holly didn't get married yet,

did they? You didn't see him at the party, did you? Grammatically, one part of the sentence

contains a negative, and the other doesn't. For example, the question, Van Gogh was a

French painter, wasn't he? uses the affirmative, he was a French painter in the first part of the

sentence, and the question part, wasn't he, uses the negative, wasn't.

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