In English there are some indefinite pronouns. We will first be familiar with the Indefinite pronoun then we will discuss Tag questions with Indefinite pronouns.
List of indefinite pronoun:
| anyone | someone | no one /none | everyone |
| anybody | somebody | nobody | everybody |
| anything | something | nothing | everything |
Tag questions with indefinite pronouns
Rule 1 :
If the subject is with ‘–one’ in a statement such as – {everyone, someone, anyone, no one, none etc. } in all these cases, we use the subject ‘they’ to form tag question.
Everyone likes him, don’t they?
None can do this, can they?
Anyone is allowed, are they?
Rule 2:
If the subject is with ‘–body’ in a statement such as – {everybody, anybody, somebody, nobody etc. } , in all these cases, we use the subject ‘they’ to form tag question.
Everybody wants money, don’t they?
Nobody went there, did they?
Somebody will say so, won’t they?
Rule 3:
If the subject is with ‘–thing’ in a statement such as – {everything, anything, something, nothing etc. } in all these cases, we use the subject ‘it’ to form tag question.
Nothing is certain, is it?
Anything is possible for him, isn’t it?
Nothing was done, was it?
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