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‫مفاهيم اللغة الإنجليزية (لغة أولى) الصف الثالث الثانوي‬

A question tag is a short phrase at the end of a statement that turns it into a question:
He likes musicals, doesn’t he? (negative tag)
Your sister can‟t drive, can she? (positive tag)

Uses of tag questions

● The meaning of a question tag depends on how you say it. When the intonation falls, we are
not really asking a question, we just want the listener to agree with us.
That film was brilliant, wasn’t it?
● If we are asking a real question, our intonation rises.
You‟re enjoying yourself, aren’t you?
● After Let‟s … the question tag is shall we:Let‟s go to the park, shall we?
● After I‟m …, the negative question tag is aren‟t I? (= am I not?): I‟m right, aren’t I?
Notes:
● In question tags, we change nouns into pronouns:
Teachers play an important role in our lives, don’t they?
● We use it instead of this and that and they instead of these and those:

That question was difficult, wasn’t it?
● Tag questions are affirmative with none of, nobody, never and hardly:

None of those boys were lazy, were they?
● We use they instead of someone, everybody, no one
and nobody:Nobody came early, did they?
● We use it instead of nothing and everything:Nothing is correct, is it?

Countable nouns

● Nouns with singular and plural forms are called countable nouns:
a bottle, two bottles, a hundred bottles; a child, three children; a man, ten men
● Singular countable nouns can be used with a/an or one:
Ali is eating a banana. Sara would like an apple. Hassan has eaten one banana and two oranges.
● Plural countable nouns can be used with numbers, How many, so/not many, a few, fewer:
How many grapes would you like? Can I have a few grapes?
Fewer people live in the country today than in the past.

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