Sentence: Is there a coffee machine in this room, isn't it?

[Susan2]

Hello,

there is another question I have:

Is the following correct English ? :

"Is there a coffee machine in this room, isn't it ?"

Should you not say :

"There is a coffee machine in this room, isn't it ?"

Thanks,

Susan

[Molly]

[Yankee]

[Molly]

[Yankee]

Can you be more precise? Which parts of youthful Britain use isn't it and/or innit this way?
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[Molly]

The less prescriptive parts. Really and originally, for innit, in the chav/townie/pikey parts, even though now, it's spreading beyond those borders. In such parts "isn't it" can be heard as either a kind of hypercorrection or as a dig a the prescriptivist.

[MrPedantic]

1. ??Is there a coffee machine in this room, isn't it?

I wouldn't expect to hear "isn't it" (or "innit") after a question with that form, in "youthful" or any other kind of BrE.

The tag could follow a question in the form of a statement, e.g.

2. This is the room with the coffee machine, isn't it?

Or a plain statement, for emphasis, e.g.

3. "The milk's gone off again." "Well, it's the heat, isn't it."

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[Yankee]

[Molly]

[Molly]

[MrPedantic]

[Molly]

Do Pikey's have an area?

That was the point of my question. You seem to think they do.

[MrPedantic]

[Molly]