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Had better /tag
Message from nguyetthu posted on 15-01-2012 at 11:09:41 (D | E | F)
Hello,

What will we write in the blank to form the tag in such a sentence:
He'd better tidy his room every morning,....?
We know that we can inverse the helping verb in the tag. May we write" had better he?" or "had he better?"
We also know that the whole 'had better' is a helping verb, because we can use 'not' after ' had better' and not after 'had'.

Thanks for your help.
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Edited by lucile83 on 15-01-2012 11:14

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Re: Had better /tag from dolfine56, posted on 15-01-2012 at 11:38:12 (D | E)
hello,

He'd better tidy his room every morning

I think you have to write "he'd" in a negative and interrogative form.

Example: they had read your book, hadn't they?
...to be confirmed

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Re: Had better /tag from notrepere, posted on 17-01-2012 at 01:52:16 (D | E)
Hello

The correct response is 'hadn't he'.

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Re: Had better /tag from dolfine56, posted on 17-01-2012 at 09:04:40 (D | E)
Hello notrepere,
for the confirmation

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