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C. Change these sentences into negative sentences without changing
their meaning.

1. He is honest.

2. Iron is a heavy metal.

3. He is always on time.

4. Everyone liked the lecture.

5. I shall never forget you.

6. He is sure of his success.

7. He refused the order.

8. Everybody is present.

9. Everyone found the film interesting.

10. The water is too cold for me to drink.

11. Everyone will agree that he is an intelligent person.

12. I am unhappy with the way things are progressing.

Tag questions

Ø A declarative sentence can also be changed into an interrogative sentence by adding a
short question at the end. For example,

y She is beautiful, isn’t she?

These short questions that we put at the end of sentences are called tag questions.
Tag questions contain a helping verb and a subject pronoun.

Usually, if the sentence is positive, the question tag is negative.

Positive sentence Negative tag

I am a student, aren’t I?

You are a student, aren’t you?

She is a student, isn’t she?

She was coming, wasn’t she?

He lives (does live) in Paris, doesn’t he?

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