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Grammar review

They didn’t study German, did they?
You will come, won’t you?
There were a lot of people at the beach, weren’t there?
You can’t swim, can you?

Present simple passive Unit 6

The Present simple passive has the following structure:
subject + Present simple of be (not) + past participle
Spanish is spoken in Spain and South America. Bananas are not grown in Britain.
In the passive the action is done by the agent (introduced by the preposition by); the subject
receives the effects of the action.
The cars are built by robots.

make and let Unit 6

let + object + base form of the verb is used to express permission to do a certain action:
He lets me go on holiday alone.
make + object + base form of the verb expresses obligation:
They made me go away.

So do I. / Neither do I. etc Unit 7

To express agreement we can use the constructions So (do) I answering an affirmative
sentence and Neither (do) I answering a negative sentence.

To agree with a sentence using no auxiliary verb we use do / does, did.
I like jazz. So do I.
I don’t eat meat. Neither do I.
She looks tired. So does he.
He went home yesterday. So did she.
We didn’t like the party. Neither did we.

To agree with a sentence using no auxiliary verb we use the same verb.
She can speak English. So can he.
I’ve never been to America. Neither have I.

used to Unit 7

Used to (didn’t use to) expresses a past routine:
We used to live in town.
We didn’t use to watch TV, but now we watch it every evening.

The interrogative form is: Did … use to?
Did you use to watch Blockbusters when you were young?

too / not ... enough Unit 8

Too + adjective means ‘excessively’:
It’s too expensive.
Not + adjective + enough means ‘not sufficiently’:
He’s not old enough to drive a car.

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