you seemed angry, are you?

[abo.omar]

you seemed angry, are you?
Is it a suitable question tag?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkncD9mhvE4
The question is at 01.42.
By the way, do you think it is a good YouTube channel to learn English?

 

[GoesStation]

The sentence is at 1:22. It's incorrect. The question isn't a tag question. The text should read You seem angry. Are you?

 

[emsr2d2]

The only possible question tag is "You seem angry, don't you?" As GoesStation has showed you, the words used in your original post must be separated into a statement and a follow-up question.

 

[abo.omar]

The sentence is at 1:22.
Yes, you are right.
It's incorrect. The question isn't a tag question.
So what kind of question is it?
The text should read You seem angry. Are you?

The sentence is seemed not seem.
Is it to say 'you seem angry. Are you?'

 

[abo.omar]

The only possible question tag is "You seem angry, don't you?" As GoesStation has showed you, the words used in your original post must be separated into a statement and a follow-up question.

Do you mean' You seemed angry. Are you angry?'
or You seemed angry. Were you angry?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Do you mean' You seemed angry. Are you angry?'

You changed tenses, so these are more likely:

- You seemed angry. Are you still angry?

- You seemed angry then. Are you angry now?

or You seemed angry. Were you angry?

That's grammatical but not conversational. We would not repeat angry. It's understood.

Are you asking whether tenses matter?

They do.

 

[jutfrank]

do you think it is a good YouTube channel to learn English?

Leaving the awful seem/seemed error aside, and the misidentification of a question tag, and the incorrect written form of the utterance, I'll point out that there's an unforgivable error right at the very beginning, 0:17. He says "... take the picture at this angle" where it says on the screen "take the picture in this angle". I wouldn't recommend somebody who doesn't feel it necessary to proofread his work for egregious errors before publishing it.

The sentence is seemed not seem.

No, it's seem. The person writing the text has mistakenly written the wrong form.

So no, I don't think it's a good resource to use. I think you should stop watching it immediately.

 

[abo.omar]

Are you asking whether tenses matter?

They do.

Now, it is clear.
It was he who wrote it seem.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Hi, Abo!

I looked at some of the video. His pronunciation is very good. That's his strength.

However, his punctuation is bad, and he's sometimes guilty of poor word choice. He does not always use the right preposition, and he's not totally fluent in usage. For instance, we would never call someone a basketball athlete. We'd say basketball player.

 

[emsr2d2]

I apologise for my earlier error, where I used "seem" instead of "seemed". The question tag for the correct word would be "You seemed angry, didn't you?" It's not a natural utterance because using "seem(ed)" indicates that it's a subjective statement in which the speaker is the one who thought the other person was angry. Following it with "didn't you?" is asking the other person to agree with the speaker's subjective view.
It would be more natural to say "You seemed angry. Were you?" As you can see, though, that is not a question tag. It's statement and a follow-up question.

 

[abo.omar]

It was my error. I thought it is a question tag, but it is not.
I learned for the first time a follow up question term.Than you all.
If I want to make question tags, will they be as follow?
You seemed angry. Were you?"
You seem angry. Are you?"

 

[GoesStation]

If I want to make question tags, will they be as follow?
You seemed angry. Were you?"
You seem angry. Are you?"

No. Those aren't tag questions.

Emsr2d2 explains here why tag questions aren't appropriate with seem.

 

[abo.omar]

No. Those aren't tag questions.

Emsr2d2 explains here why tag questions aren't appropriate with seem.

Yes, you are right. It is not logic .

 

[GoesStation]

Yes, you are right. It is not logical.

See above.

 

[Tdol]

If I want to make question tags, will they be as follow?
You seemed angry. Were you?"
You seem angry. Are you?"

They're not question tags, but they are correct.

 

[emsr2d2]

A question tag, always follows a comma. It is not a separate question. It is a request for the person you're speaking to to agree with/disagree with or to confirm (or not) what you've said.

As you'll see from the following examples, if the opening statement is positive in nature, the question tag is negative and vice versa.

That car is beautiful, isn't it?
You always go swimming on Tuesdays, don't you?
We've been here before, haven't we?
He's very rude, isn't he?

We're not going to Spain this year, are we?
You don't have a bike, do you?
She hasn't done her homework, has she?
They won't like the food, will they?