"Am I not", "Does she not?", etc.

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

These forms below as I have learnt are formal in modern English and can be used for emphasis. Does it mean they used to be acceptable?
"Am I not?"
"Does she not?"
"Has she not?"

 

[Tarheel]

Two things. One, they still are acceptable under the right circumstances. (Hard to think of one.) Two, I would need to know what came before to decide if I think the expression (whichever one) is appropriate.

 

[Yankee]

I would place them on the seldom/never used list.

 

[GoodTaste]

I would see them as old-fashioned.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Yes.

Is this going to be the shortest Rachel thread ever?

We shall see.:-D

 

[PeterCW]

They sound as if they are spoken by a lawyer in a courtroom drama.

 

[GoodTaste]

They sound as if they are spoken by a lawyer in a courtroom drama.

A drama of modern days? Or a drama of a bygone era?

 

[Rover_KE]

Either.

 

[PeterCW]

A drama of modern days? Or a drama of a bygone era?

I don't know what a real court is like but it is a dramatic convention that lawyers always use rather stilted language in court

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

It doesn't sound like any lawyer I know.