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‘I'm not as abominable as people say’, a snowman murmured looking at himself in the ice mirror. ‘I'm a lovely creature with fleecy fur and gentle smile, aren't l?’
‘You never leave your pouch at home, do you?’ A possum said to an opossum.
‘There’s no reason to wait to the Bear until the late spring’, is there?’ Said one owl to another at supper.
‘Let’s crush Carthage, shell we?’ Said one tribune to another.
You lived once on Sesame street, didn’t you? That was awful, wasn’t it?
‘I'm sorry, madam. It was the last Sunday's space ferry to Mars.’ ~ ‘Oh, was it?’
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‘I'm not as abominable as people say’, a snowman murmured, looking at himself in the ice mirror. ‘I'm a lovely creature with fleecy fur and a gentle smile, aren't l?’‘You never leave your pouch at home, do you?’, a possum said to an opossum.
‘There’s no reason to wait for the Bear until the late spring’, is there?’, said one owl to another at supper.
‘Let’s crush Carthage, shall we?’, said one tribune to another.
"You once lived on Sesame street, didn’t you? That was awful, wasn’t it?"
‘I'm sorry, madam. It was the last Sunday's last space ferry to Mars.’ ~ ‘Oh, was it?’
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‘I'm not as abominable as people
say’, a snowman murmured looking at himself in the ice mirror. ‘I'm a lovely creature with fleecy fur
and a gentle smile,
aren't l?’
‘You never leave your pouch at home, do you?’, a possum said to an opossum.
‘There’s no reason to wait for the
Bear until the late spring’,
is there?’ said one owl to
another at supper.
‘Let’s crush Carthage, shall we?’, said one tribune to another.
"You lived once on Sesame street, didn’t you? That was awful, wasn’t it?"
‘I'm sorry, madam. It was the last Sunday's space ferry to Mars.’ ~ ‘Oh, was
it?’-This is not a tag question as it is
a response to a statement. It would only be a tag question if the utterance and
tag question was made by the first speaker.
-Be
careful with your use of indefinite articles,
-You
don't use a capital letter in a reported speech statement after the utterance.
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