Re: What is this construction

Staving Shreyas Sampat:
>Peter Bleackley wrote:
>
>>He liked languages, did Tolkien.
>>
>>It may be a particularly Northern English form. Does anyone know what
>>such a construction is called?
>
>I've never seen this form, except as "did <pronoun>?" as a tag question.
>Do you have some specific example that you were thinking of? Your
>(apparently) made-up one doesn't look grammatical, to me.
 From this and various other responses, it's clear that this particular
form is dialectal and peculiar to northern England, as I had previously
surmised. The question tagging thing that Shreyas mentions is something
totally different.

One way the construction might be used is to comment on something that
somebody else has said about the same subject.

"Well, I bumped into him in the pub - made the mistake of trying to keep up
with him. Half an hour later he'd drunk me under the table."
"He likes his ale, does Frank."

Pete

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