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Questions Tags

by woodward

You know what Questions Tags are, don't you?
If not, I'm sure you have heard them before, haven't you?

Question tags are those short questions that are sometimes added to the end of a sentence when you want someone to agree (or disagree) with you or when you are not sure about something and you want confirmation. Sometimes they are added just to make conversation.

If you would like to learn more about Question Tags then check out our grammar notes: Question Tags in English

We also have an interactive game where you can practice the use of Question Tags: Question Tags Game

We have created some new summary charts explaining how to use them and the difference in meaning depending on the intonation given to the Question tag.

Question Tags in English

Positive Question Tags in English

I hope you find these useful.

woodward | August 29, 2014 at 12:59 pm | Tags: Chart, Question Tags, Questions, Tenses | Categories: Learn English | URL: http://wp.me/p1AOzJ-dW

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Adopt a Pet

¹Do you live alone in New York City? ²Do you need companionship? ³Do you like animals? ⁴Adopt a pet.

⁵Don’t buy a pet. ⁶Animals are very expensive in a pet store. ⁷Visit the A.S.P.C.A. (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) or one of the city’s animal shelters. ⁸They have lots of animals for adoption – Siamese cats, German shepherd dogs, Irish setters, and many mixed breeds. ⁹Look at the different animals. ¹⁰Say. “I want a friendly, healthy pet.” ¹¹Pick one out and take it home. ¹²Give it food and “tender loving care.” ¹³That isn’t very difficult, and the reward is friendship and loyalty.

1. Copy the entire passage.

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Morning

¹It’s morning in the park. ²A young man is walking with his dog. ³Every day he buys a newspaper at the newsstand. ⁴The news dealer greets him. ⁵The man takes his newspaper to a nearby bench. ⁶He sits by himself and reads. ⁷His dog runs in the trees.

1. Copy the entire passage.

2. Rewrite the passage but, change young to old in sentence 2, and change nearby to empty in sentence 5.

3. Rewrite the passage, but change A young man to A young lady in sentence 2.

4. Rewrite the passage, but change A young man to Two young men in sentence 2.

5. Rewrite the passage, but change morning to yesterday morning in sentence 1, and take out the words Every day in sentence 3.

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Aug. 31, 2014

bletting

\BLET-ing\

noun
1. the ripening of fruit, especially of fruit stored until the desired degree of softness is attained.

Quotes

… the strange fruit was not good if eaten before ageing and bletting, when its taste became like chocolate.
-- Leslie Forbes, Waking Raphael, 2003

Origin

Bletting comes from the French word blet meaning "overripe." It entered English in the 1830s.

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Spanish Word of the Day
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help

verdadero, adjective
real

You can use verdadero in both the meanings that the English word has. First, real in the sense of ‘true’:

Su verdadero nombre era Francisco.
His real name was Francisco.

Diana: su verdadera historia
Diana: Her True Story

Second, for emphasis:

Es un verdadero hombre.
He’s a real man.

Es un verdadero privilegio interpretar una música que va directo al corazón.
It’s a real privilege to interpret music which goes straight to the heart.

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