?.................,Hanan thought she was late for school
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?.................,Hanan thought she was late for school
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Question tag
- Hanan thought she was late for school, didn't she?
Hanan thought she was late for school ,wasn't she?
why didn't she is the right answer
الأستاذة الفضلى هبة الله،
As a general rule in question tag expressions if the sentence is positive, the tag will be negative. If the sentence is negative, the tag will be positive. oiu
- You haven't seen him, have you? XXX
- She met him, didn't she? xxx
The auxiliary verb is repeated in the tag. If, however, there is no auxiliary, you can use do/does/did. xxx
الاستاذ القدير محمود الحيمي,
أشكر تفضلك بشرح القاعدة,واعذر هناتي في الترجمة اذ انني لست صاحبة اختصاص
لكن شغفي باللغة دفعني للمحاولة
كل التقدير
Hanan thought she was late for school ,wasn't she?
Dear Hanixx
It's generally understood that for getting the right answer to any question no matter how confusing it is, the first advisable step is to define the form and analyze its constituent parts.xx
let's take the first part of the sentence, that goes before the comma. (Hanan thought she was late for school), the first question that should be asked is "what is the form of this sentence". Certainly, the answer will be Indirect Speech, however, we still need to know the tense, and constituent elements of which this indirect speech form is built up. The tense is past simple, and the form splits into two main parts:
Hanan thought (incomplete sentence, however it can't stand by its own),xx
(Subject+ Main Verb)xx
she was late for school (full meaningful sentence)xx
(Subject+Verb Predicate)xx
In the above two parts there is no auxilary verbs, the two verbs (thought, and was) are the past tens for think and is respectively, and both are main verbs.xx
The second part of the sentence completes the meaning of the first part: Hana thought (What??). The answer is as follws:xxHanan thought she was late for school.xx
(Subject+Verb+Noun Predicate)xx
we have come to know that the form is indirect speech, the tens is past simple, the constituent parts are Subject+main verb+NP, I think it is easy now to identify the tag question for "Hanan thought she was late for school".xx
Hanan thought she was late for school, didn't she? (this is the correct form for tag question).xx
Dr. Mahmoud Alhaimi has precisely illustrated the forms of tag questions, and when to use the negative or posative tag qesiton form eithr by main or auxiliary verb, that is based on the syntactic formula for English sentence.xx
I just wanted to bring to your notice (Mr. Hani) that Immediate Constituent Analysis (ICA) helps much in clearing all grammatical doubts we may come across.xx
Warm regards ]
اقتباس:
المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة هانى رضا
didn't she
or
wasn't she
both answers are right
To my enitre understanding, the right answer is (didn't she) for it does tag the verb (thought) and not (was). The sentence is in a form of reported speech, and consists of the following elements:اقتباس:
المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة عزيز الخطيب
Hanan (Subject)+ thought (verb)+ she was late for school (Noun Predicate).
A verb is the part of speech that always taged and not the NP.
Thanks
ألم تفعل ذلك الفعل وهو التأخر (didn't she)اقتباس:
المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة ناصر العبدلي
ألم تكن متأخرة wasn t she
المعنى جائز في الحالتين
شكرا أخي العزيز
شكراً جزيلاً أستاذ ناصر على الشرح الوافي والكافي فقد بينت المسألة بإيجاز مفيد وأشكر لك مرة أخرى هذا الأسلوب الممتع في التحليل والوصول إلى النتائج.
كل الود.
الشكر في الأصل لك أستاذنا القديراقتباس:
المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة محمود الحيمي
مودتي
The sentence should read
Hanan thought she was late for school, didn't she?
This is the only correct answer