Question tags |
Question tags - use
A question tag is used at the end of a statement to ask someone to agree with us, or to keep a conversation going, or to ask a genuine, real question: It was lovely seeing those buildings, wasn't it? Since both Helen and Michal went on the date together and saw the same things, these are examples of question tags to ask for someone's agreement or to keep a conversation going. |
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Question tags - form
A question tag is made up of a statement and a tag. If the statement is positive, the tag is negative: |
Question tags - intonation
The meaning of a question tag changes if your voice goes up or down when you say it. |
Vocabulary:
hunk (adj, to describe a man, informal): handsome, good-looking to look green (idiom): to look ill or sick, or as if you are going to vomit to throw up (verb): to be physically sick, to vomit to fancy (verb, informal): to be romantically or sexually attached to someone |
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