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Grammar

Think and Act

Identify and underline each of the question tags in the following
examples, and see how useful question tags are.

Example one:

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Brijesh : It’s Saturday today, isn’t it?
Biren : So what?

Brijesh : It’s two o’clock. Why don’t you turn on ‘Megha Mix’?
Biren : You can turn it on yourself, can’t you? That’s your favourite
programme, isn’t it?
Brijesh : Don’t be so mean! You’re never nice to me, are you?

Biren : You are just a lazy bones. You know that, don’t you? You
can see I’m busy.
Brijesh : Busy! No one calls reading a silly story busy, do they?

Biren : Hold your horses, will you? I know you don’t want to see it any
way, do you?

Example two:

a. Susan: Bill will be joining us for dinner.
Alice: That’s great. Joan’s coming too, isn’t she?
Susan: No, she has to work late.

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