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Hello, Gillermicro. There are four possibilities in English for question-tags: the verb in the main clause can be either affirmative and negative, and so can the verb in the 'tag', so you can have: 1- aff. main verb + aff. tag 2- aff. main verb + neg. tag 3- neg. main verb + aff. tag 4- neg....

To negate is to answer in the negative, to deny and can be expressed in different ways: - by negating the verb: He did not pay. - by negating the subject: Noone paid. - by negating the object: He paid nothing. a) You can negate e.g. by using - adverbs: not, never, nowhere, noway,...