Tag Question and Question Tag

Tag Question is a negative or positive statement followed by a question tag to ask for confirmation.

Examples:

You are John, aren’t you?

You are not John, are you?

She was very beautiful, wasn’t she?

Your father is a manager, isn’t he?

I am very handsome, aren’t I?

I am not ugly, am I?

They go there tonight, don’t they?

He doesn’t know me, does he?

You will accompany me tonight, won’t you?

You will not be here, will you?

From the examples above we know that when the main statement is negative, the question tag will be positive. When the main statement is positive, the question tag is negative. Look at the fifth example. There I use aren’t I not amn’t I because there is not “amn’t” for the abbreviation of am not, so we use aren’t.

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Amount and Number

Before we talk about the words “Amount and Number”, let us see the paragraph below:

Payday loan or cash advance programs allow you to borrow an amount of money up to $1500. However, before you apply for your payday loan or cash advance, you have to consider a number of requirements.

From the paragraph above, we can conclude as follow:

Amount is used to refer to a quantity, uncountable nouns.

Number is used to refer to countable nouns (if you can count the nouns by the numbers one, two, and so on, it means you can count the nouns).

Passive Voice in English

We use “PASSIVE VOICE” when we want to focus on the action, or the object affected by an action. For example, when someone has stolen your money, then you may say, “My money has been stolen” . Here we want to focus on “my money” and “stolen”.

Let’s see the chart below how to form “passive voice” from “active voice”

Passive voice is formed by “to be + V3/Past Participle”

Tenses	Active Voice	Passive Voice
Simple Present	Jane writes the poem	The poem is written by Jane
Present Continuous	Jane is writing the poem	The poem is being written by Jane
Simple Past	Jane wrote the poem	The poem was written by Jane
Past Continuous	Jane was writing the poem	The poem was being written by Jane
Present Perfect	Jane has written the poem	The poem has been written by Jane
Simple Future	Jane will write the poem	The poem will be written by Jane

Now, I’ll give you homework, please change to passive voice the sentence below:

Jane is going to write the poem.

Jane had written the poem.

Jane has been writing the poem

What is the difference between right, true, and correct?

I cannot explain them well. but let see the paragraph below so you will understand.

John says: "Jane Got 9 in her exam yesterday. The correct answers are nine and the incorrect answer is one. But when I saw the exam, actually, Jane's answers are only 5. I think the teacher is wrong."

I can say that John is true. He has said what he knows.
I can say that the Teacher is wrong/ not right.
I can say that Jane's answers in the exam: some are correct and some are incorrect.

I know that it is very difficult to differentiate those words. If you have any idea, please tell us below.

Thank you.


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Bring and Take

Are you confused with the two words, Bring and Take?

The explanation below may make you clearer. Let's see.

Bring : when you move something towards you
Take : when you move something away from you.

Or I can say that as follow:

bring is the causative transitive form of come, and
take is the causative transitive form of go

Examples:

John, bring me a paper!
John, take this paper!


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