This is the best way to acquire a good grammar. The tag always corresponds to the original sentence, so producing tag questions reinforces the question form of the tense being used. You are tired aren’t you? “aren’t you” is the tag. It is like ‘n’est-ce pas?’ in French, but changes according to the grammar used. [...]
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I feel that the question ‘how do you like’ is more common in American English? In British English, although we do use it, we often say ‘what do you think of’ or if it’s an offer, ‘how would you like’ How do you like living in the United States? = What do you think about [...]
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Notes pour francophones: Paul utilise les mots ‘count noun’ et ‘noncount noun’. count noun : nom dénombrable noncount noun : nom indénombrable Selon le contexte, certains mots peuvent être et ‘count’ et ‘uncount’. Des boissons, par exemple. Tout comme en français, on peut dire: some beer : de la bière a beer : une bière [...]
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What’s it like to live in New York? – Il est comment de vivre à New York? Prenez l’habitude d’employer les réponses courtes: c’est toujours avec l’auxiliaire, et non le verbe (sauf être) Do you like New York? – Yes I do / No I’m notAre you going out tonight? – Yes I am / [...]
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Closed questions are questions that can only be answered by “yes” or “no” (or “maybe”!). In English, it is more polite to use the appropriate auxiliary verb in your answer. If the verb is “to be”, there is no auxiliary, so you use “be” in your answer: (être: I am, you are, he is, she [...]
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