Tag Question (definition)

• Tag Questions in Gaelic: Tag Questions

Tag questions, ask for confirmation. They are structured as a declarative with a question "tag" which contrasts in negative polarity with the statement: English "We're going, aren't we?", Gaelic Tha sinn a' falbh, nach eil?"

In English, for example the sentence "He isn't a doctor, is he?" is a tag question.

See Also

• Interrogative (definition)

External Links

• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsATagQuestion.htm

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_question

References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.