Might question tag

queenmaabd · #1 (**permalink**) 19-Jan-2005, 09:55

Ok here's a wierd question.

We're going over question tags in class and a sentece came up with might in it. Is there some type of exception when we make the question tag, because it just sounds weird to me.

Would one say?:
We might go, might we not?

Casiopea · #2 (**permalink**) 19-Jan-2005, 11:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by queenmaabd

Ok here's a wierd question.

We're going over question tags in class and a sentence came up with might in it. Is there some type of exception when we make the question tag, because it just sounds weird to me.

Would one say?:
We might go, might we not?

mightn't and shan't are not as popular in modern (American) English as they are in British English.

He might come, mightn't he? | He might come, right?
We shall go, shan't we? | We will go, won't we?

queenmaabd · #3 (**permalink**) 19-Jan-2005, 12:14

OK! That's probable why it sounds strange to me (I speak AE) but thanks anyway!

Tdol · #4 (**permalink**) 20-Jan-2005, 01:25

As a BrE speaker, I have no problems with 'mightn't' in question tags, but don't use it much elsewhere.


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