Are these sentences gramatically okay?
Who is the most precious person in your life?
What did your parents give you for Christmas?
How did you do on the test?
Would you mind telling how you did on the test?
I am the first one to wish you happy birthday, aren´t I?
You aren´t considering going to college after high school, are you?
Math is not exactly your forte, is it?
There´s no possibility of being robbed in broad daylight, is there?
Let´s eat out after I´m done with my homework, shall we?
Don´t make any noise while your teacher´s not here, will you?
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Graham's corrections are a more natural way of making those two statements , although your phrasing is acceptable in casual conversation . Your last sentence , however, is incorrect. A better way to say it would be, "Be quiet while your teacher is not here, will you?" This is because "will you?" indicates a positive action, and it references the beginning of the sentence, which is a negative (do not make noise). If you take out the supporomiddle of the sentence, you are left with, "Do not make noise, will you?"; you can sew that the positive doesn't work to reinforce the negative . Does that make sense?
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Would you mind telling me/us how you did on the test? (you tell somebody)
I am the first one to wish you a happy birthday, aren´t I? (I would add "a")
The other sentences are fine.
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