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The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8 - Nurture not nature for the textbook Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book with authors Carol Nuttall and Amanda French from National Geographic Learning

Question

Work in pairs. Complete the sentences from the listening with the correct auxiliary verbs in the correct form. Explain why each auxiliary is being used.

Answer

  1. aren’t (used as a tag to check understanding / elicit agreement)
  2. have (used as a short rhetorical question to avoid repetition of the whole verb phrase: Why have they been traditionally occupied by these sexes?)
  3. will (to avoid repetition of the whole verb phrase: but they will butt in)
  4. doing (to avoid repetition of the verb phrase: and in talking equally as much, use ...)
  5. do (to add emphasis – often as part of making a contrast)

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