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Question tags - English lesson

General structure:

Positive sentence ➡ negative question tag
Negative sentence ➡ positive question tag

➡️ Examples:
You are French, aren't you?

She can swim, can't she?

They don't like pizza, do they?

➡️ How to form a question tag:
Identify the auxiliary verb (be, do, have, can, will, etc.)

Repeat the auxiliary in the question tag.

Reverse the meaning (positive sentence → negative tag, negative sentence → positive tag).

Use the correct subject pronoun (I, you, he, she, we, they).

➡️ Tip:
If there's no auxiliary in the sentence, use do / does / did:

You like music, don't you?

He watched the film, didn't he?

➡️ Special cases :
With I am, we say:

I'm your friend, aren't I? (not amn't I)

With let's, we use:

Let's go to the park, shall we?

➡️ Remember:
We use question tags to:

Check information

Be polite

Start or keep a conversation going

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1. Your smell is disgusting. You have drunk wine again, ?

2. In her current husband, Sally has found her true love, ?

3. You like to discover foreign countries, ?

4. Steven even likes the tatoo of the ugly rattle snake on his neck, ?

5. These poor people probably don't believe in God, ?

6. Unfortunately, we have run out of money. We can't visit the Eiffel tower without paying, ?

7. Dennis has declined my invitation to my birthday party. I would say that Dennis is a stupid idiot, ?

8. Somehow, I do recognize your face. You also were at the art exhibition of Picasso last year, ?

9. These disgusting guys who smoke, take drugs and steal aren't your friends, ?

10. Nobody appreciates my amazing work and the effort I have put into it, ?

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