Transcript LIFESTYLE_LESSON_12

TAG ENDINGS
1. Tag questions are used to confirm information.
2. Tag questions are used when we are already sure of
the answer and just want confirmation (falling
intonation with the tag question).
3. Tag questions are used to check information.
4. If the real answer is not known, these become real
questions, and a rising intonation is used with the
tag question.
1. Verb TO BE
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I’m __________, aren’t I?
She __________, wasn’t she?
It is __________, isn’t it?
Steve is __________, isn’t he?
They were __________, weren’t they?
2. Other Verbs
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You __________, don’t you?
You __________, didn’t you?
You __________, won’t you?
He __________, doesn’t he?
He __________, didn’t he?
He __________, won’t he?
3. Auxiliary and Modals
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He has __________, hasn’t he?
You have __________, haven’t you?
They could __________, couldn’t they?
You should __________, shouldn’t you?
She can __________, can’t she?
4. With ‘let’s’, ‘shall we’.
1. Let’s go to the museum, shall we?
2. Let’s play Twister, shall we?
3. Let’s see that movie, shall we?
5. Imperative, ‘will you’.
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Keep quiet, will you?
Make up your mind, will you?
Raise your hand, will you?
Speak up, will you?
Go to bed, will you?
6. Positive tag after
never, hardly, nobody
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You’ve never been to Germany, have you?
You’ve hardly been scolded, have you?
7. Subject is nothing, use ‘it’
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Nothing serious happened, did it?
8. Nobody, somebody, no one,
everybody, someone, everyone,
use ‘they’.
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No one asked for me, did they?
Nobody saw what happened, did they?
9. Positive tags after positive
sentences
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You’re __________, are you?
He’s __________, is he?
They’re __________, are they?
10. Neither + aux. + Subject
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Neither am I
Neither can I
Neither do I
Neither can he
Neither is she
Neither did he
11. So + aux. + Subject
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So do I.
So am I.
So does he.
So is he.
So is she.
So are they.
So are we.