Anacolutonic appendage

[Orin Hargraves]

>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