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Answer for exercise 8

The solution for exercise 8 in chapter 8 - Nurture not nature of Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book by Carol Nuttall and Amanda French

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)