English Grammar Lessons

Question Tags

We use tags in spoken English but not in formal written English. They are not really questions but are a

We use reported speech when we are saying what other people say, think or believe. He says he wants it.

We also use reported speech when we are saying what other people asked or wanted to know. We do not

We often use ‘suppose’ to mean ‘imagine’ or ‘guess’ I suppose you’ll be meeting Danielle when you go to Paris?

‘Supposed to be’ can be used to mean ‘it is said/believed’. The new James Bond movie is supposed to be

If you ‘have something done’, you get somebody else to do something for you. I’m going to have my hair

We can use ‘should have’ to talk about past events that did not happen. I should have let her know

We can use ‘could have’ to talk about something somebody was capable of doing but didn’t do. I could have

We can use ‘will have done’ to talk about what will have been achieved by a certain moment in time.