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ABSTRACT 
In English, tag questions play an important part in communicative process. People 
are not able to communicate well without making and answering questions. In reality, 
people make tag question for confirmation or checking information. It is obvious that 
tag questions cannot be missed in communication. However, there are several 
problems when using tag questions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to describe 
the syntactic and pragmatic features of English tag questions. This study used both 
quantitative and qualitative methods as the main ones. In addition, a descriptive 
method was also used to shed light into the features of these English structures in 
terms of syntax and pragmatic. Finally, some other methods and techniques such as 
statistical technique and error method were also used by the writer of this paper to 
measure the chosen participants‟ ability to respond to a written test and an oral test. In 
the previous research, the syntactic and pragmatic features were shown. However, this 
study‟s contributions are: describing the syntactic and pragmatic features of English 
tag question and pointing out the commonly errors committed by students at Nguyen 
Thi Minh Khai high school and the solutions to the errors will be recommended. 
These findings will be useful. 

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Table 1 

LIST OF TABLES
 
Word order in English tag questions 
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Table 2 
Canonical TQs identified in English by various authors 
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Table 3 
Word order in English tag questions in the written test 
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Table 4 
The typical intonation of English tag questions 
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Table 5 
Summary of errors made by participants on the oral and 
written test 
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Table 6 
Rhetorical tag question 
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Table 7 
Verb tenses in English tag question 
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Table 8 
Intonation of English tag questions based on pragmatic 
function 
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