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Abstract Pronouns used as tags (It's funny, that), comparable in certain respects to their much more widely studied question tag counterparts (It's funny, isn't it?), are a feature of the right periphery of clauses in some dialects of British English. In this paper, we investigate the co-occurrence of ProTags with other pragmatic markers in the right periphery and find evidence to support a general ordering principle subjective > intersubjective, consistent with the model proposed in Shinzato (2007). Our searches of multiple corpora have revealed that ProTags can appear in various combinations with markers such as though and you know, as well as question tags (It's funny that isn't it?). By far the most commonly attested were combinations of ProTags and question tags, with the majority having ProTag > question tag ordering. Our results show that there is a strong tendency for a ProTag to precede other right-periphery pragmatic markers consistent with it having subjective core meaning, that it can combine with an intersubjective pragmatic marker to form a compound pragmatic marker with intersubjective meaning, and that certain combinations of pragmatic markers with subjective meaning can exhibit flexibility of ordering at the right periphery.