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যেমনঃ I am going to school, aren’t I?

সাধারনত ৩ ধরনের sentence- এর ক্ষেত্রে Tag Question হয়। তাহলোঃ

1. Assertive 2. Imperative 3. Exclamatory

Tag Question গঠনের সময় ব্যবহৃত Auxiliary verb কে operator বলে। সেগুলো হলোঃ am, is, are, was, were, shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, need, dare, ought, have, has, had, do, does, did.  

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Assertive sentence: 

Operator থাকলে- প্রদত্ত বাক্য + (,) + operator + not/ not  + pronoun + ?

Operator না থাকলে- প্রদত্ত বাক্য + (,) + do/ does/ did + not/ not + pronoun + ?

NB: প্রদত্ত বাক্য negative হলে not হবে না। আর affirmative হলে not হবে। Tense অনুযায়ী do/ does/ did ব্যবহার করতে হবে।

Imperative sentence:

সাধারনত imperative sentence শুরু হয়ঃ

1. Verb
2. Do not
3. Never/ always                                                  will you?
4. Let/ let him/ let them/ let me
5. Let us/ let’s                                                       shall we?

সঠিক pronoun এর ব্যবহারঃ

Subject	Pronoun
There	There
Nothing/ anything/ something/ everything	It
Everybody/ somebody/ anybody/ anyone/ someone/ everyone/nobody/ none	They
All of us/ some of us/ everyone of us/ most of us	We
All of you/ some of you/ none of you/ most of you/ every of you	You
All of them/ everyone of them/ most of them	They
Rahim, Karim/ Tania, Kona/ Book, Pen , Bird	He/ she/ it
Plural noun ( birds, people, students, friends)	They

Tag form:

Am not = aren’t Is not = isn’t Are not = aren’t Was not = wasn’t Were not = weren’t Will not = won’t Shall not = shan’t Can not = can’t Could not = couldn’t May not = mayn’t

Has not = hasn’t Have not = haven’t Had not = hadn’t Do not = don’t Does not = doesn’t Did not = didn’t Ought not = oughtn’t Dare not = daren’t Need not = needn’t  Might not = mightn’t Must not = mustn’t