Three Step English for Intermediate Learners - Practice #29 - Asking for Confirmation - Recap
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Do you know how to confirm information in English? Welcome to 3-step English practice by EnglishClass101.com. In this lesson, you will practice how to confirm information in English. Let's look at the main dialogue. Two people are having a conversation. The business has been going well, hasn't it? At least that's what people have been saying.
Yes, it's going very well. So well, in fact, that I could use another pair of hands. In this first line, the character ends her sentence with the question tag, "Hasn't it?" This is a way to confirm that the speaker's understanding of the situation is correct.
In most situations, a question tag both needs to be in the same tense as the rest of the sentence and to use the same verb. It also needs to use the negative form of the verb if the sentence uses the positive form and vice versa. Lastly, the subject needs to match the subject that was already established. Let's practice with this grammar more in this lesson.