On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 09:56:38PM -0400, Sean Fitzpatrick wrote: > A friend in Australia asks: > > Is there a term for the construct in English that often > occurs at the end of an assertion, typically something like > "isn't he?", "weren't they?", "didn't she?", "won't it?" > (the equivalent of French "n'est-ce pas?")? A "tag question". Jesse Sheidlower OED