English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
RULES 8 AND 9
Indefinite pronouns such as “everyone”, “everybody”, “nobody”, “all” etc are considered plural in tag formation and attract the personal pronoun, “they”:
Everybody came for the programme, didn’t they?
The tag to a statement may differ depending on the speaker’s intetion. When the imperative expression, “let me”, is used, “won’t you?” forms the tag if the expression is meant to be an instruction to the listener and “will you?” forms the tag when the expression is a request:
Let me come in, won’t you?✔️
Let me come in, will you?✔️
GAB
