What are question tags used for?
To confirm information, express surprise, or ask a rhetorical question.
What does a question tag repeat from the main sentence?
The subject as a personal pronoun.
How is the polarity of a question tag related to the main sentence?
It is negative after an affirmative sentence and affirmative after a negative sentence.
Which auxiliary does a question tag use if the main sentence has one?
It repeats the auxiliary or modal verb from the main sentence.
What auxiliary is added in a question tag if the main sentence has no modal auxiliary?
The auxiliary do is added by default.
How does the tense of a question tag relate to the main sentence?
It keeps the tense of the main sentence.
What do modal auxiliaries allow the speaker to express?
The speaker's point of view on a situation.
What are three grammatical properties of modal auxiliaries?
They are invariable, have no infinitive, and do not conjugate.
Can modal auxiliaries be followed by another modal?
No, they cannot be followed by another modal.
What does 'can' express in its deontic value?
Permission.
What does 'can’t' express in its deontic value?
Prohibition.
What obligation does 'must' express?
An obligation imposed by the speaker.
What does 'must not' or 'mustn’t' express?
A strong prohibition.
What is the affirmative construction of a modal verb?
Subject + modal auxiliary + base verb + complement.
What obligation does 'have to' express?
An obligation coming from outside.
What is the past form of 'have to'?
Had to.
Does 'must' have a past form?
No, it does not have a past form.
How is the negation of 'have to' formed?
With the auxiliary do + not.
What does the negation of 'have to' mean?
Absence of obligation.
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1. Quelle phrase exprime une obligation imposée par une règle extérieure, comme celle d’une école ou d’un employeur ?
2. Quelle valeur exprime « mustn’t » dans « You mustn’t touch the controls » ?
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