2. Good morning. How are you? It is very
cold today, isn’t it?
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3. Yes, it is. Man cannot keep at least this in his
control. Hope you agree with me, don’t you?
How about your preparation?
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4. Please do not ask anything about my preparation.
You know the present political situation, don’t you?
We have lost too many working
hours due to frequent bandh
calls, haven’t we?
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5. A few politicians are like that, aren’t
they? How do these bandhs affect your
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preparation?
6. If the examinations are postponed, then it
may be difficult to get admission in other
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universities.
7. In our last meeting, you said that you
decided to do MCA from our college
itself, didn’t you? Why do you worry
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about it?
8. We should not be so self-centered. We think
about those aspirants, who dream to continue
their studies abroad.
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9. Only a few people can hardly think of
such things, can they? Everything gets
settled, doesn’t it?
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11. Question tags too play an important role in
our day to day communications. We make a
statement and often tag it on with a yes/no
type question as if we are seeking the other
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man’s opinion.
12. The general rule is a negative tag to a positive
statement and a positive tag to a negative
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statement.
13. If an “auxiliary” is present in the statement, then the tag
takes that “auxiliary’ and suitable ‘pronoun’ and for a
positive tag without n’t; and with n’t for a negative tag. If
there is no auxiliary ’do’; ‘does’; or ‘did’ does the job as per
the tense of the sentence.
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14. Half negatives like “hardly, little, few rarely” etc.
are treated as negative statements and therefore
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take positive tags.
15. A few, a little, take negative tags, as they
convey positive sense. Requests and
proposals take positive tags.
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16. A few, a little, take negative tags, as they
convey positive sense.
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