Question tag —Blessed be those who work for the sake of the homeland...

[man of manners]

Hi!
This is a new thread in which we will discuss some problematic sentences that need suitable question tags.
The sentence is:

Blessed be those who work for the sake of the homeland,........?

My opinion: "right?/shouldn't they? [subjunctive]/may they not-mightn't they ['may' for hopes or prayers]"

Thanks in advance!

 

[GoesStation]

No question tag is natural after that statement.

 

[man of manners]

No question tag is natural after that statement.

OK, if someone ever were to use it, how would they tag this sentence?

 

[Skrej]

Nobody would ever tag that sentence.

 

[GoesStation]

OK, if someone ever were to use it, how would they tag this sentence?

"'Blessed be those who work for the sake of the homeland' is a statement for which no question tag is possible, isn't it?"

 

[Raymott]

"Blessed be those who ..., blessed they not be?/blessed be they not?/[blessed] may they not [be]?"; be they not?"

 

[man of manners]

OK, it cannot be tagged.

"Blessed be those who ..., blessed they not be?/blessed be they not?/[blessed] may they not [be]?"; be they not?"

What are those? Are those yours?

 

[Matthew Wai]

You would be well-advised to forget about question tags and go on to a next topic.

 

[Raymott]

OK, it cannot be tagged.

What are those? Are those yours?

Yes, but they're only suggestions for the system you are creating. It wouldn't be tagged in English.

 

[GoesStation]

Somehow I had forgotten until this morning the all-purpose question tag my parents used frequently: "... no?" I'm not sure it's a standard American English usage, though. It could be influenced by Polish or Yiddish, respectively my mother's and my father's first languages.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Can 'agree?' be used as a question tag?

 

[GoesStation]

Can 'agree?' be used as a question tag?

You may sometimes here agreed? A fairly recent one in AmE is ​yeah?