Anacolutonic appendage

[Grant Barrett]

When I was a boy, I had a cousin who used to say things like, "I have a
lot of cars, do I?" How's that for anacoluthic, innit?

Grant Barrett

On Sep 18, 2004, at 07:35, Orin Hargraves wrote:

>> 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
>
>