CONTENTS

5-1 Yes/no questions and short answers

5-2 Yes/no and information questions
5-3 Where, why, when, what time, what…for, and how come
5-4 Questions with who, whom, and what
5-5 Using what + a form of do
5-6 Using which and what kind of
5-7 Using whose
5-8 Using how
5-9 Using how often
5-10 Using how far
5-11 Length of time: it + take and how long
5-12 Spoken and written contractions with question words
5-13 More questions with how
5-14 Using how about and what about
5-15 Tag questions
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5-1 YES/NO QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS

Does Marta look happy?

No, she doesn’t.

Marta doesn’t look happy.

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 5-1 YES/NO QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS

YES/NO SHORT + LONG ANSWER

QUESTION ANSWER

(a) Do you like Yes, I do. (I like apples.)

apples? No, I don’t. (I don’t like apples.)

(b) Did he arrive? Yes, he did. (He arrived.)

No, he didn’t. (He didn’t arrive.)

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YES/NO SHORT + LONG ANSWER

QUESTION ANSWER

(c) Have you seen Yes, I have. Yes I have seen Jim.
Jim? No, I haven’t. No, I haven’t seen
Jim.

(d) Is it sunny? Yes, it is. It’s sunny.

No, it isn’t. It isn’t sunny.

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 5-1 YES/NO QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS

YES/NO SHORT LONG

QUESTION ANSWER ANSWER

(e) Will he go Yes, he will. Yes, he will go.

with us? No, he won’t. No, he won’t go.

yes/no question
can be answered yes or no

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 5-1 YES/NO QUESTIONS AND SHORT ANSWERS

(c) CORRECT: Yes, I have. Yes, I’ve.

(d) CORRECT: Yes, it is. Yes, it’s.

(e) CORRECT: Yes, he will. Yes, he’ll.

affirmative short answer

helping verb is NOT contracted
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5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

Whose old truck is that?

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 5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

Are you going to college?

yes/no question
can be answered yes or no

Where are you going to college?

information question
where, when, why, who, whom,
what, which, whose, how
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 5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

(QUESTION HELPING SUBJECT MAIN (REST OF

WORD) VERB VERB SENTENCE)

(a) Does he work in Beijing?

yes/no question

(b) Where does he work ?

information question

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 5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

(QUESTION HELPING SUBJECT MAIN (REST OF

WORD) VERB VERB SENTENCE)
(c) Are you working at home?
(d) Where are you working ?
(e) Will they visit soon?
(f) When will they visit ?
(g) Did Jack see Jill?
(h) Who(m) did Jack see ?

HELPING VERB + SUBJECT + MAIN VERB

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 5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

(QUESTION HELPING SUBJECT MAIN (REST OF

WORD) VERB VERB SENTENCE)

(i) Are you at the gym?

(j) Where are you ?

main verb: be
simple present, simple past
helping verb position

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 5-2 YES/NO AND INFORMATION QUESTIONS

(QUESTION HELPING SUBJECT MAIN (REST OF

WORD) VERB VERB SENTENCE)

(k) Who went with you?

(l) What was wrong?

subject: question word

do is not used

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5-3 WHERE, WHY, WHEN, WHAT TIME, WHAT…FOR,
AND HOW COME

What time is our meeting?

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 5-3 WHERE, WHY, WHEN, WHAT TIME, WHAT…FOR,
AND HOW COME

QUESTION ANSWER

(a) Where did you go? Vancouver

Seven-thirty.
(b) When did you get there? Last Monday.
Five hours ago.

where place
when any time
expression
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 5-3 WHERE, WHY, WHEN, WHAT TIME, WHAT…FOR,
AND HOW COME

QUESTION ANSWER
Six-fifteen.
(c) What time did you go? Around noon.
A quarter to two.

(d) Why did you go there? Because my

parents live there.

what time on a clock

why reason

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 5-3 WHERE, WHY, WHEN, WHAT TIME, WHAT…FOR,
AND HOW COME

(e) What did he stop for ?

(f) How come he stopped?

What…for
How come = why

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5-4 QUESTIONS WITH WHO, WHO(M), AND WHAT

What broke?
Something
broke.

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 5-4 QUESTIONS WITH WHO, WHO(M), AND WHAT

QUESTION ANSWER

(a) Who spoke? Someone spoke.

(b) Who(m) did you hear? I heard Ms. Adam.

who subject
whom object
formal
English
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 5-4 QUESTIONS WITH WHO, WHO(M), AND WHAT

QUESTION ANSWER

(c) What broke? Something broke.

(d) What did you break? I broke something.

what subject or object

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 5-4 QUESTIONS WITH WHO, WHO(M), AND WHAT

QUESTION ANSWER
(a) Who spoke? Someone spoke.
(c) What broke? Something broke.

who, what subject

do not used

CORRECT: Who sang?

INCORRECT: Who did sing?
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 5-5 USING WHAT + A FORM OF DO

What do you do in science class?

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 5-5 USING WHAT + A FORM OF DO

QUESTION
ANSWER

(a) What does Fayud do every evening?

He prepares dinner.
(b) What did Amy do last weekend?

She went swimming.

(c) What is Amy doing now?

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 5-5 USING WHAT + A FORM OF DO

QUESTION
ANSWER

(d) What are you going to do this week?

I’m going to study.

(e) What do you want to do tomorrow?

I want to go bowling.
(f) What would he like to do now?

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 5-5 USING WHAT + A FORM OF DO

what + form of do:

questions
am doing, will do, about
are going to do, activities
did…

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5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

Which pencil do you want?

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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(a) Would you Sure. Which one

check my do you want me
answer? to check?

choice which
what

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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(b) Amy: I love to travel.

Cindy: Which cities do you like to visit?

singular nouns
which
plural nouns
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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(c) Laura: This is a photo of my family.

Bill: How nice. Which one is Shawna?

which people
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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(d) What did you get for your birthday?

what not a choice

from a group
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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(e) What kind of shirt do you need?

T-shirt sport shirt dress shirt formal shirt

general category
what kind of specific type
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 5-6 USING WHICH AND WHAT KIND OF

(f) What kind of vegetables do you like?

carrots cabbage corn onions

cucumbers eggplant garlic peppers

general category
what kind of specific type
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5-7 USING WHOSE

Whose keys are these?

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 5-7 USING WHOSE

(a) Whose (hat) is this? It’s the recruit’s (hat).

(b) Whose (shoes) are these? They’re mine.
They’re my shoes.
(c) Whose phone did you use? I used Evelyn’s (phone).

Whose possession

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 5-7 USING WHOSE

(d) Who’s that? Zoe Thompson.

(e) Whose birthday cake is that? It’s Zoe’s cake.

Who’s = who + is
Whose possession

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5-8 USING HOW

How was the beach?

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.

(a) How did you get home?

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home?

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home? I took a bus. / By bus.

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home? I took a bus. / By bus.
I flew. / By plane.

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home? I took a bus. / By bus.
I flew. / By plane.
I took a train. / By train.

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home? I took a bus. / By bus.
I flew. / By plane.
I took a train. / By train.
I walked. / By foot.

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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
I drove. / By car.
I took a taxi. / By taxi.
(a) How did you get home? I took a bus. / By bus.
I flew. / By plane.
I took a train. / By train.
I walked. / By foot.

how many uses

ask about transportation
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 5-8 USING HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
(b) How old are you? Thirty-three.
(c) How tall is she? About 2 meters.
(d) How big is your van? It seats eleven.
(e) How tired are you? Not very tired.
(f) How thirsty are you? I’m very thirsty.
(g) How soon will they be ready? In about one hour.
(h) How well does he speak Urdu? Not very well.
(i) How quickly can you finish? I can finish by 3:00.

how adjectives
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 5-9 USING HOW OFTEN

How often do you eat sushi?

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 5-9 USING HOW OFTEN

QUESTION ANSWER
Every day.
Once a week.
About 3 times a week.
(a) How often do you eat out?
Every other day or so.
Two times a month.
Once a month.

how often frequency

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 5-9 USING HOW OFTEN

QUESTION ANSWER Maybe

Two
Once . once.
At least
or four.
three.
(b) How many times a day do you eat meat?
(c) How many times a week do you play tennis?
(d) How many times a month do you wash your car?
(e) How many times a year do you visit your dad?

how often = a day

a week
how many times a month
a year
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 5-10 USING HOW FAR

How far is it to the Eiffel Tower?

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 5-10 USING HOW FAR

(a) It is 4,611 km from Ottawa to Vancouver.

from Ottawa to Vancouver.
from Vancouver to Ottawa.
(b) It is 4,611 km
to Vancouver from Ottawa.
to Ottawa from Vancouver.

same meaning
It is + distance + from/to + to/from
most common
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 5-10 USING HOW FAR

(c) How far is it from Ottawa to Vancouver?

4,611 kilometers.

(d) How far do you live from your job?

About 3 miles.

How far distance

1 mile = 1.6 kilometers

1 kilometer = .614 mile
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 5-10 USING HOW FAR

(e) How many miles is it from Chicago to Dallas?

(f) How many kilometers is it from Paris to Rome?

(g) How many blocks is it to the supermarket?

How far = how many miles

how many kilometers
how many blocks

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5-11 LENGTH OF TIME: IT + TAKE AND HOW LONG

How long does it take

to cook a turkey?

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 5-11 LENGTH OF TIME: IT + TAKE AND HOW LONG

IT + TAKE + (SOMEONE) + LENGTH + INFINITIVE

OF TIME

(a) It takes four hours to cook a turkey.

(b) It took Lena ten minutes to make dinner.

It + take used with time words + infinitive

length of time

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 5-11 LENGTH OF TIME: IT + TAKE AND HOW LONG

IT + TAKE + (SOMEONE) + LENGTH + INFINITIVE

OF TIME

(a) It takes four hours to cook a turkey.

(b) It took Lena ten minutes to make dinner.

It + take used with time words + infinitive

length of time
An infinitive = to + simple form of verb
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 5-11 LENGTH OF TIME: IT + TAKE AND HOW LONG

(c) How long does it take to cook a turkey? –Four hours.

(d) How long did it take Abe to run home? –Five minutes.

(e) How long did you read last night? – 45 minutes.

(f) How long will you be on vacation? –Two weeks.

How long length of time

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 5-11 LENGTH OF TIME: IT + TAKE AND HOW LONG

(g) How many weeks will you be on vacation? –Two.

minutes
hours
days
how many +
weeks
months
years

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5-12 SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CONTRACTIONS WITH
QUESTION WORDS

What’s
that?

What’s
that?

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 5-12 SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CONTRACTIONS WITH
QUESTION WORDS

SPOKEN ONLY
is (a) “When’s he leaving?”
are (b) “What’re they doing?”
does (c) “When’s the plane leave?”
did (d) “When’d the plane leave?”
has (e) “Who’s left?”
have (f) “Where’ve you been?”
will (g) “Where’ll you be?”

contracted in speaking
usually NOT written
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 5-12 SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CONTRACTIONS WITH
QUESTION WORDS

SPOKEN ONLY

(h) What do you want? Whaddya want?

(i) What are you doing? Whaddya doing?

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 5-12 SPOKEN AND WRITTEN CONTRACTIONS WITH
QUESTION WORDS

(j) Where’s the cat?

What’s that?
Who’s he?

WRITTEN
only contractions with where,
what or who
usually only for informal writing

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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

How’s it going? Terrible! I’m

so worried
about my test!

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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
(a) How do you spell “effort”? E-F-F-O-R-T

(b) How do you say “no” in Russian? Nyet.

(c) How do you say/pronounce this

word?

Spell the word.

To answer: Say the word.
Pronounce the word.

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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
(d) How are you getting along? Great.
Fine.
(e) How are you doing? Okay.
So-so.
(f) How’s it going?

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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

QUESTION ANSWER
(d) How are you getting along? Great.
Fine.
(e) How are you doing? Okay.
So-so.
(f) How’s it going?
How is your life?
Is your life okay?
Do you have any problems?

Greetings: Hi Pat. How’s it going?

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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

QUESTION ANSWER

(g) How do you feel? Terrific!

Wonderful!
How are you feeling? Great!
Fine.
Okay.
health, So-so.
general emotional state A bit under the weather.
Terrible!
Lousy.
Awful!
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 5-13 MORE QUESTIONS WITH HOW

(h) How do you How do you

do? do?

formal introduction

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5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

How about joining

our study group?

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(a) We need
What about
How about
iced tea? something to drink
with dinner.

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(b) What time should

What about
How about
7:30? we serve the
soup?

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(c) What do you

How about
What about
going to a want to do
museum? this weekend?

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(d)
What about
How about
inviting Edith That sounds like
to join us? a good idea.

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(a) What
How about
abouticed
ice tea?
tea?
(b) What about7:30?
How about 7:30?
(c) How
Whatabout
aboutgoing
goingtotoaamuseum?
museum?
(d) How
Whatabout
aboutinviting
invitingEdith
Edithtotojoin
joinus?
us?

How about noun

same meaning
What about
+ or –ing
& usage
form of verb
suggestions or offers

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(e) I’m not worried. I’m worried.

We have time to How about you?
study.

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 5-14 USING HOW ABOUT AND WHAT ABOUT

(f) No. What Are you worried?

about you? I’m very worried.

question about
How about you preceding
What about you information
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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

Sydney isn’t in Africa, is it?

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(a) Tennis is fun, isn’t it ?

(b) She didn’t study, did she ?
(c) There’s enough coffee, isn’t there ?
(d) I’m not passing the class, am I ?
(e) I’m too early, aren’t I ?

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(a) Tennis is fun, isn’t it ?

(b) She didn’t study, did she ?
(c) There’s enough coffee, isn’t there ?
(d) I’m not passing the class, am I ?
(e) I’m too early, aren’t I ?

end of sentence
tag question
uses auxiliary verb

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AFFIRMATIVE (+) NEGATIVE (-)

(d) You play tennis, don’t you?

(e) Lonnie is a doctor, isn’t she?

affirmative negative
main verb tag question

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NEGATIVE (-) AFFIRMATIVE (+)

(f) You don’t play golf, do you?

(g) Lonnie isn’t a lawyer, is she?

negative affirmative
main verb tag question

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EXPECTED
ANSWER
(d) You play tennis, don’t you? Yes.
(e) Lonnie is a doctor, isn’t she? Yes.

(f) You don’t play golf, do you? No.

(g) Lonnie isn’t a lawyer, is she? No.

Expected answer agrees

with main verb.

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(h) SPEAKER’S IDEA

I’m not sure if

this is
expensive.

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(h) SPEAKER’S QUESTION

This is expensive,isn’t it?

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

SPEAKER’S QUESTION
(h)

This is expensive,isn’t it?

Checking to see if Rising

information is intonation
correct?

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(i) SPEAKER’S IDEA

I think that
dancing is fun.
I think he does
too.

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

(i) SPEAKER’S QUESTION

Dancing is fun, isn’t it ?

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 5-15 TAG QUESTIONS

SPEAKER’S QUESTION
(i)

Dancing is fun, isn’t it ?

Seeking Falling
intonation
agreement?

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Compare to Yes/No Questions

(j) Is dancing fun?

Yes, it is.
OR
No, it isn’t.

The speaker has no idea.

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