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The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Small talk for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Look at these sentences from the conversations in Exercise 2. Then answer the questions below.

Answer

  1. If the main part of the sentence is positive, the question tag is negative; if the main part of the sentence is negative, the question tag is positive. The question tag uses the same verb as the main part of the sentence. If this is an auxiliary verb (have, be) or a modal verb, then the question tag is made with the same verb. If the main part of the sentence doesn’t have an auxiliary verb, the question tag uses an appropriate form of do. 
  2. c The speaker wasn’t exactly helping either, was he?
  3. a They have music later on down there, don’t they?
  4. b You couldn’t pass me the salt, could you?