Glossary of Linguistic Terms
Tag Statement
Definition:
A tag statement is anellipticalstatement that follows and echoes amain clausestatement.
Examples:
In English, asubjectnoun or pronoun followed or preceded by anauxiliary verbas in the following example is a tag statement:
- He made a good showing,did Bill.
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