:: : It seems strange that this observgation would imply a new number category for nouns nouns that are singular except in tag questions, when they are plural.
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Does anyone know how to extract the tag question'eh'or the interjections'eh'( hey ! hi ! ) in phonetic realization ?-talk ) 00 : 10, 20 June 2010 ( UTC)
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"Mustn't " can nonetheless be used as a simple negative of " must " in tag questions and other questions expressing doubt : " We must do it, mustn't we?
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What does it tell us about the pluralness of the subjects of these sentences, if we conjugate the main clause in the singular but the tag question in the plural?
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The phrase is known to lexicographers as a tag question, like the won't you ? after " sit down " or the isn't it ? after " today's a scorcher ."
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:Halcatalyst-- do you mean that " or not " at the end of a sentence becomes like a Tag question ?-- talk ) 01 : 05, 20 July 2014 ( UTC)
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Note that the tag question in Georgian does not include any of the three recognized negative particles ( see subsection, " Negation " ); the particle " xom " by itself conveys the meaning.
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However, negative face politeness can be potentially viewed as weak language because of its associated hedges and tag questions, a view propounded by O'Barr and Atkins ( 1980 ) in their work on courtroom interaction.
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In some West Country dialects, the pronoun " er " can be used in place of either " he " or " she ", although only in weak ( unstressed ) positions such as in tag questions.
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Moreover, other aspects of utterances found in spoken languages are non-fluency features including : voiced / un-voiced pauses ( like " umm " ), tag questions, and false starts when someone begins their utterances again to correct themselves.
