Thread: The audience was amazed, ____________?
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Default Re: The audience was amazed, ____________?
No reference required. The tag mirrors the subject-verb pair in the main clause:

Concordance
The audience was amazed, wasn't it?
The audience were amazed, weren't they?

Elipsis (...)
The audience was amazed (the people I mean), weren't they?

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