A question/tag

A question/tag
Message from sabzevar posted on 28-08-2013 at 11:22:33 (D | E | F)
Hello,

Can you help me please?
Thank you for your answers.

English test #3387: Grammar : tags
You had the car repaired, didn't you ?
She has her hair cut every month, doesn't she ?
the above two sentences came as a lesson on the mentioned page ,but I think the question tag should be :
hadn't you ?
hasn't she ?

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Edited by lucile83 on 28-08-2013 16:46

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Re: A question/tag from passenger75, posted on 28-08-2013 at 15:11:07 (D | E)
Hello,

as far as I know,in such a sentence "have" is not an auxiliary verb.In tag questions we use the auxiliary.
Have and has are auxiliary verbs in past perfect and present perfect.
Bye.

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Edited by passenger75 on 28-08-2013 15:35

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Re: A question/tag from alissa913, posted on 29-08-2013 at 10:19:38 (D | E)
Yes, the answer from passenger75 was exactly correct. Here the words "has" and "had" are not auxiliary verb; they are causative verb.

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