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English Audio Request

SershTi
148 Words / 1 Recordings / 2 Comments
Note to recorder:

Natural , rather slow speed please

The meat is not ready yet, is it?
I'll take care that the meat is cooked properly, shall I?
I go swimming every Friday, don’t I?
I am right, aren’t I?
I am playing well, aren’t I?
My parents have dinner in the cafe, don’t they?
I have a good idea, don’t I?
They had a lot of time last year, didn’t they?
Check that the meat is completely cooked before you serve it up, won’t you?

These are yours, aren’t they?
Everybody took the test, didn’t they?
Somebody has come, haven’t they?
No one knows this young writer, do they?
We’ve never been there, have we?
They found nobody, did they?

Let him have a rest, will you?
Let him have a rest, won’t you?
Let me decide, will you?
Let me decide, won’t you?
Let’s have breakfast, shall we? and don’t shout at parents, will you?

Recordings

  • tricky tag questions ( recorded by tangavengo ), London

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    The meat is not ready yet, is it?
    I'll take care that the meat is cooked properly, shall I?
    I go swimming every Friday, don’t I?
    I am right, aren’t I?
    I am playing well, aren’t I?
    My parents have dinner in the cafe, don’t they?
    I have a good idea, don’t I?
    They had a lot of time last year, didn’t they?
    Check that the meat is completely cooked before you serve it up, won’t you?

    These are yours, aren’t they?
    Everybody took the test, didn’t they?
    Somebody has come, haven’t they?
    No one knows this young writer, do they?
    We’ve never been there, have we?
    They found nobody, did they?

    Let him have a rest, will you?
    Let him have a rest, won’t you?
    Let me decide, will you?
    Let me decide, won’t you?
    Let’s have breakfast, shall we? and don’t shout at our parents, will you?

Comments

tangavengo
June 15, 2020

Very good English. The tags seemed excellent and just as in spoken English. Only one point, I think some qualifier needs to be before 'parents' in the last sentence otherwise it seems out of place. I put 'our' before 'parents'. You could also say, maybe sarcastically, 'And don't shout at the parents, will you? or 'Don't shout at your parents, will you?' The sentence begins with 'and' and 'comes after having breakfast in the previous sentence so it seems quite homely and specific. A teacher might say, jokingly, to another teacher about parent-teacher meetings, 'And don't shout at parents, will you?' So the sentence is, as such, grammatically correct.

SershTi
July 11, 2020

Thank you for your recording and comments. You've noticed the last one was a bit wrong.
There is a reason for that. That's because all others were taken from dictionaries as they were, but this last one I compiled myself.

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