Exercise 11 Short Answers Tag Questions

Directions: Fill in the blanks. Write your answer by hand in your notebook.

Exercise A: Short answers. Answer each question with a short answer. Pay attention to verb tenses.

A: Are you going to be here tomorrow?
B: Yes, ______ _______.

What’s the answer? As a short answer, it should be "Yes, I am."

Are you good at this? Let’s see. Answer each question with a short affirmative or negative response.

1. Is he a good student?
  Yes, _____ _____.

2. Are you a good student?
  Yes, _____ _____.

3. Do you have a notebook?
  No, _____ _____.

4. Does your computer work?
  Yes, _____ _____.

5. Has he done his homework yet?
  No, _____ _____.

6. Is the movie going to start soon?
  Yes, _____ _____.

7. Are the chairs in the room?
  No, _____ _____.

8. Have they had anything to eat yet?
  Yes, _____ _____.

9. Will she be coming home next weekend?
  No, _____ _____.

10. Did you do well on this exercise?
  Yes, _____ _____.

Exercise B. Finish each statment with a tag question. Tag questions (or attached questions) are answered with a negative or affirmative response.

Example: That’s an interesting painting, ______ _______?   (isn’t it)

In the question part, the verb comes before the subject, and the subject is in the form of a pronoun.

Ready?

1. It’s a nice day, ______ _______?

2. She’s here today, _______ _______?

3. You’re a student, _______ _______?

4. He has his phone, _______ _______?

5. This won’t hurt, _______ _______?

6. The furniture was delivered, _______ _______?

7. They didn’t do very well, _______ _______?

8. The children haven’t been outside yet, _______ _______?

9. We should get going, _______ _______?

10. I’m pretty good at this game, _______ _______?