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In this grammar refresh, we'll start by taking a look at something called ad question.

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So now a hard question is something you add at the end of your sentence.

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You kind of ask for clarification or to ask or someone to confirm something you just said.

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These tag questions or the tag part is one, to use a auxillary verb, that means to be or to have to

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do it.

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And if the statement that you say is a positive statement, that means that your tag question is going

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to be in the negative form.

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And it's going to reverse for the other situation, if your statement that you say is a negative sentence,

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then you're going to use a positive.

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Tag question.

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So let's look at our examples.

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The first example, you're a cool person, aren't you?

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So let's break this down here, we have your actual person, that's our statement, right?

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It's positive, so our tag question is going to be negative if we're using the form of the verb to be.

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So you're a cool person, aren't you?

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Right.

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So we're kind of confirming it, right?

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Like, hey, aren't you?

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The next question, the weather isn't nice, is it?

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And so now we're in tension here because we're switching our main sentence, if the weather isn't nice,

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that's negative, but not that's negative or a tad question is positive.

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It's just is it a we don't say the weather isn't nice, isn't it?

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That doesn't make sense.

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We have to make sure we're switching it based on what's happening with our main sentence.

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The next example, Josh plays tennis in his free time.

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So again, here, Josh plays tennis as positive statement or tag question is.

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Negative, doesn't he?

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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

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off of our sentence, right.

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You are a cool person or he is a cool person, right?

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We use the verb to be or a tag question uses to be.

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You play tennis is an action, right?

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It's something you do, though, doesn't he, does he a.

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The last one here, Emma and Kate, didn't wish you a happy birthday.

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So again, here, didn't wish is negative.

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We have the positive over here and there and to wish is an action something you do it again.

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We're using that verb to do here.

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The next thing we'll look at is how to use.

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The second conditional, you describe some hypothetical situation in a hypothetical situation.

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Is something that didn't happen, but it's possible you're just thinking about in the future if it did

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happen.

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So the phrase or the structure we use is here.

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If I were you.

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I would say, and then you add your opinion or your advice or something that you think would you would

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do in that situation.

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And something to be aware of is we always use were OK, it's always if I were a.

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We don't use was right, you might be thinking well.

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Right, goes with was not work, but in this situation, we always say we're so if I were you and not

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if I was you.

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For example, here, if I were you.

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I would say something funny to break the ice, so we're saying if in that situation I was there, this

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is what I would do.

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The next example, if I were him, I wouldn't interrupt people while talking.

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So, again, you're putting yourself in that situation and saying what you would do.