English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)

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A positive command takes a positive tag:
Get out. Will you?
Let’s go. Shall we?

When a sentence has two or more clauses, the last clause determines the tag:
He didn’t see him but he was around. Wasn’t he?
He was around but he didn’t see him. Did he?
GAB

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