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Question tags: "May have" Fri Oct 06, 2006 19:52 pm  Question tags: "May have"
 

Hi

Could you please use the question tags against the following sentences?

1- She may not have read it,--------------?
2- She mightn't possibly have seen him,------------?

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Question tags: "May have" Fri Oct 06, 2006 21:07 pm  Question tags: "May have"
 

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What would you like to achieve with a tag, Tom?

I don't like your second sentence very much. I'd never use mightn't (AmE) and the placement of the word possibly is the final ruination of that sentence, in my opinion. Why did you want to use the word possibly at all?

Maybe Alan will address the usage of mightn't in BE. Wink

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Question tags: "May have" Fri Oct 06, 2006 21:18 pm  Question tags: "May have"
 

Amy, in fact, the other day I was doing an exercise of question tags from a book and could not do these two. There was no answer key. Sad

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Question tags: "May have" Fri Oct 06, 2006 21:34 pm  Question tags: "May have"
 

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What book did you find them in, Tom?
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To be honest, I doubt I'd be likely to put a tag on either of these sentences.

Saying "may she?" at the end of sentence 1 doesn't sound normal to me.

And since I have a strong aversion to sentence 2, it makes no sense to contemplate a possible tag question. Wink

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Question tags: "May have" Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:59 am  Question tags: "May have"
 

Well, Tom, when I read your question, the first sentence with "may she?" sounded strange to me and to the second I had no clue Wink
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Question tags: "May have" Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:56 am  Question tags: "May have"
 

Hi Pamela

My impression is that Tom's sentences come from a grammar book in which the writers focused too much on grammar rules and too little on meaning and realistic usage.
This is one of my pet peeves. Some grammar books are OK, but too many are horrendous.

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