Exactly the same for me.My instinctive tag question would be "won't you?"
"Be sure to turn off the lights, won't you ?"
The others sound odd to me.
Same here."Will you," for me.
And mine.Won't you? was my first thought too![]()
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. For me the can/could options sound strange.I can imagine saying will you, Bibbles ~ but that would be more like a bad-tempered order than a polite request ... not really a question tag at all, in fact:
Turn off the lights, will you!
Same for me.I can imagine saying will you, Bibbles ~ but that would be more like a bad-tempered order than a polite request ... not really a question tag at all, in fact:
Turn off the lights, will you!
would OK be considered a tag question?Be sure to turn off the lights,_______ ?
No doubt there are a variety of opinions on this, but I believe we call them 'tag questions' on the basis of their syntax: a tag question depends on a parallel construction; Turn off the lights, will you [turn off the lights]?Going back to the original questionwould OK be considered a tag question?
"Be sure to turn off the lights, OK?"
This has more to do with the definition of a tag question, by the way.
Thanks, Cagey, that's what I wanted to know.[...]I wouldn't call your added OK? a tag question nor right? in a question like: "The world is round, right?"
I don't think that's quite accurate. Cagey, Bibliolept, Embonpoint, Myridon and I are AE speakers, as far as I know. Three of us would use "won't", one would use "will", and one would use "okay". Three of us have said that "will" would sound annoyed, angry or exasperated.From this thread, it would seem that in AE question tags do not take the opposite form of the grammatical construction used in the main clause, as it takes place in BrE.
So far, most AE speakers suggested ", will you?" and most BrE speakers suggested ", won't you?". Would you confirm that there is a regional difference here? Or is it only a recent trend in modern AE (not to make the tag negative when the main clause is positive and vice versa)?
my first thought was "..., okay?" SwissPete hit the nail on the head for me.Be sure to turn off the lights,_______ ?