Anacolutonic appendage

Orin Hargraves orinkh at CARR.ORG
Sat Sep 18 11:35:10 UTC 2004


>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?")?
>
I've always heard them called "tag questions" -- that's the ESL term for them
anyway. And so long as they decline and conjugate properly there's nothing
anacoluthic about them, isn't it?

Orin Hargraves



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