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যেমনঃ I am going to school, aren’t I?

সাধারনত ৩ ধরনের sentence- এর ক্ষেত্রে Tag Question হয়। তাহলোঃ

1. Assertive 2. Imperative 3. Exclamatory

Tag Question গঠনের সময় ব্যবহৃত Auxiliary verb কে operator বলে। সেগুলো হলোঃ am, is, are, was, were, shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, need, dare, ought, have, has, had, do, does, did.  

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Assertive sentence: 

Operator থাকলে- প্রদত্ত বাক্য + (,) + operator + not/ not  + pronoun + ?

Operator না থাকলে- প্রদত্ত বাক্য + (,) + do/ does/ did + not/ not + pronoun + ?

NB: প্রদত্ত বাক্য negative হলে not হবে না। আর affirmative হলে not হবে। Tense অনুযায়ী do/ does/ did ব্যবহার করতে হবে।

Imperative sentence:

সাধারনত imperative sentence শুরু হয়ঃ

1. Verb
2. Do not
3. Never/ always                                                  will you?
4. Let/ let him/ let them/ let me
5. Let us/ let’s                                                       shall we?

সঠিক pronoun এর ব্যবহারঃ

Subject	Pronoun
There	There
Nothing/ anything/ something/ everything	It
Everybody/ somebody/ anybody/ anyone/ someone/ everyone/nobody/ none	They
All of us/ some of us/ everyone of us/ most of us	We
All of you/ some of you/ none of you/ most of you/ every of you	You
All of them/ everyone of them/ most of them	They
Rahim, Karim/ Tania, Kona/ Book, Pen , Bird	He/ she/ it
Plural noun ( birds, people, students, friends)	They

Tag form:

Am not = aren’t Is not = isn’t Are not = aren’t Was not = wasn’t Were not = weren’t Will not = won’t Shall not = shan’t Can not = can’t Could not = couldn’t May not = mayn’t

Has not = hasn’t Have not = haven’t Had not = hadn’t Do not = don’t Does not = doesn’t Did not = didn’t Ought not = oughtn’t Dare not = daren’t Need not = needn’t  Might not = mightn’t Must not = mustn’t

Identify Tense

1.      We elected him Chairman. ________________________________

2.      I saw the boy crying. ____________________________________

3.      We had finished the work. ________________________________

4.      He is beating the thief.       ________________________________

5.      Who has made the case?   ________________________________

6.      The sun rises in the east.     ________________________________

7.      He goes to bed at ten o’clock. _____________________________

8.      We are not playing.            ________________________________

9.      You have done the work.   ________________________________

10.  He has gone to school.       ________________________________

11.  I had been reading for two hours. ___________________________

12.  I went to school.                ________________________________

13.  I was a little boy.                ________________________________

14.  They were present in the meeting. ___________________________

15.  He did not come to me yesterday. ___________________________

16.  The boy was playing.             ______________________________

17.  I had reached the college.   ________________________________

18.  They will do the work.        ________________________________

19.  We bought two hilsha fish yesterday. _________________________

20.  I shall be reading all morning. ______________________________

Exercise on Tense

1. The earth _____round the sun. (move, moves, moved)
2. My friends ____the Prime Minister yesterday. (see, have seen, saw)
3. I ___him only one letter up to now.(sent, have sent, send)
4. She _____worried aboud something. (looks, looking, is looking)
5. It started to rain while we _____teninis. ( are playing, were playing, had  played)
6. He ___fast when the accident happened. (is driving, was driving, drove)
7. He ____asleep while he was driving. (falls, fell, has fallen)
8. I’m sure I _____him at the partry last night. (saw , Hve seen, had seen)
9. He ____a mill in this town. (worked, is working, has been working)
10. He ____here for the last five years. (worked, is working, has been working)
11. He thanked me for what I _____. (Have done, had done , have been doing)
12. I ______a strange noise. (hear, am hearing, have been hearing)
13. I ______him for a long time.(know , have known, am knowing)
14. I ______English for five years. (Study, am studying, have been studying)
15. Don’t disturb me. I _____my home work. (do, did, am doing)
16. Abdul ___to be a doctor. (wants, wanting, is wanting)
17. The soup ____good. (taste, tastes, is tasting)
18. He _____TV most evenings.(watches, is watching, is watch)
19. Hee ___out five minutes ago. (has gone, had gone, went)
20. When he lived Barishal, he ___to the cinema once a week. (goes, went, was going)
21. The baby ___all morning. (cries, has been crying)
22. I _____Rahim at the zoo. (saw, have seen, had seen)
23. I ____Kumar this weekk. (havedn’t seen, did’t seen, am not seeing)
24. This paper _____twice weekly. (is apperaing, appearing, appears)
25. Ashok fell off the ladder when he ____the roof. ( is mending, was mending, mended)
26. The plane _____at 3.30. (arrives, will arrive)
27. I will phone you when he _____back. (comes, will come)
28. When I get home, my dog ______at the gate waiting for me. (sits, will be sitting)
29. I _____the John the evening. (visit, am visiting)
30. Look at those black clouds. It _____(will rain, is going to rain)
31. The train _____before we reach the station. (arrives, will have arrived)
32. I ____home next Sunday. (go, am going)
33. Help! _____fall. (will fall, am going to fall)
34. Hurry up! The programme _____(will start, is about to start)
35. This book is not long. I ______it by lunch time. (will be reading, will have read)