18 Rhetorical Tie-Downs
If I assert something, you doubt it. If I lead you to assert something that I believe, you agree with it. Ending a statement with one of the following questions will elict the listener to repeat it, confirm it, or even finish the sentence for you.
- Aren’t they?
- Don’t we?
- Isn’t it?
- Aren’t you?
- Shouldn’t it?
- Isn’t that right?
- Can’t you?
- Wouldn’t it?
- Didn’t it?
- Couldn’t it?
- Haven’t they?
- Wasn’t it?
- Doesn’t it?
- Hasn’t it?
- Won’t they?
- Don’t you agree?
- Hasn’t she?
- Won’t you?
