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Download full textArmagost, James L. – 1972
This paper seeks to discover the rules active in the formation of tags (intonation tags, declarative tags, and tag questions) in English. The author discusses former analyses of these constructions and presents his own thoughts with many examples, concluding that English has at least two tag formation rules: one that accounts (perhaps…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar
