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positive or negative

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Hello Alan,

As far as I know, we use the following:

a) positive sentence + negative tag*;
b) negative sentence + positive tag.

My question: Do the verbs like refuse/reject/deny and the words like few/little make the statement negative and have an impact on tags? Are the sentences that use one of the above-mentioned words considered negative?


*In EFL grammar books positive sentence + negative tag is usually taught, though positive sentence + positive tags are also possible. Many tags-based test-questions are rest upon the positive sentence + negative tag structure in my country. .

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Re: positive or negative

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My question: Do the verbs like refuse/reject/deny and the words like few/little make the statement negative and have an impact on tags? Are the sentences that use one of the above-mentioned words considered negative?

No, none at all!
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