In this grammar refresh, we'll start by taking a look at something called ad question.
So now a hard question is something you add at the end of your sentence.
You kind of ask for clarification or to ask or someone to confirm something you just said.
These tag questions or the tag part is one, to use a auxillary verb, that means to be or to have to
do it.
And if the statement that you say is a positive statement, that means that your tag question is going
to be in the negative form.
And it's going to reverse for the other situation, if your statement that you say is a negative sentence,
then you're going to use a positive.
Tag question.
So let's look at our examples.
The first example, you're a cool person, aren't you?
So let's break this down here, we have your actual person, that's our statement, right?
It's positive, so our tag question is going to be negative if we're using the form of the verb to be.
So you're a cool person, aren't you?
Right.
So we're kind of confirming it, right?
Like, hey, aren't you?
The next question, the weather isn't nice, is it?
And so now we're in tension here because we're switching our main sentence, if the weather isn't nice,
that's negative, but not that's negative or a tad question is positive.
It's just is it a we don't say the weather isn't nice, isn't it?
That doesn't make sense.
We have to make sure we're switching it based on what's happening with our main sentence.
The next example, Josh plays tennis in his free time.
So again, here, Josh plays tennis as positive statement or tag question is.
Negative, doesn't he?
And if you're wondering why here are we using to be is an R, but here we use does it and it's based
off of our sentence, right.
You are a cool person or he is a cool person, right?
We use the verb to be or a tag question uses to be.
You play tennis is an action, right?
It's something you do, though, doesn't he, does he a.
The last one here, Emma and Kate, didn't wish you a happy birthday.
So again, here, didn't wish is negative.
We have the positive over here and there and to wish is an action something you do it again.
We're using that verb to do here.
The next thing we'll look at is how to use.
The second conditional, you describe some hypothetical situation in a hypothetical situation.
Is something that didn't happen, but it's possible you're just thinking about in the future if it did
happen.
So the phrase or the structure we use is here.
If I were you.
I would say, and then you add your opinion or your advice or something that you think would you would
do in that situation.
And something to be aware of is we always use were OK, it's always if I were a.
We don't use was right, you might be thinking well.
Right, goes with was not work, but in this situation, we always say we're so if I were you and not
if I was you.
For example, here, if I were you.
I would say something funny to break the ice, so we're saying if in that situation I was there, this
is what I would do.
The next example, if I were him, I wouldn't interrupt people while talking.
So, again, you're putting yourself in that situation and saying what you would do.