Let's look at the sentence pattern.

This pattern is the structure that all of our examples will follow.

Subject plus simple past present, perfect verb phrase, plus question tag.

Let's go part by part.

The subject is the first part of the sentence, the person, place, or thing the speaker is talking about.

The verb phrase tells us what the subject is doing or what state it's in.

It includes any auxiliary verbs, helping verbs, or tense markers needed to express the time or nature of the action.

The question tag is a short question added to the end.

It matches the subject and tense of the sentence and usually changes to the opposite.

If the sentence is positive, the tag is negative and vice versa. Now let's

look at an example sentence. The business has been going well, hasn't it? Here the subject

is the business. The verb phrase is has been going well. It describes the current situation

and uses the present perfect continuous tense to show that this state has been ongoing.

The question tag is, hasn't it? It repeats the auxiliary verb has and adds not to form the negative since the main

statement is positive. So the full sentence follows the pattern. Subject, the business, plus

verb phrase, has been going well, plus question tag, hasn hasn't it this structure is used to

confirm that the speaker's understanding is correct now let's look at some

speaking examples you were on the basketball team last year weren weren't you? Can you see how the pattern applies

here? You is a pronoun and the subject. We're on the basketball team last year is the verb phrase.

Then we have the question tag, weren't you, at the end to confirm the information.

So this fits the full structure, subject, plus verb phrase, plus question tag. The speaker believes it's true and is checking that the listener agrees.

Next, they wanted to take tennis lessons, didn't they?

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