10.14 Grammar exercise. Question tags.

MARIA: ‘I bet that you haven’t seen a show like that in your life, have you? It was definitely one of the best shows that I’ve ever seen, wasn’t it? She’s a great dancer, isn’t she? There’s something really sensual about the way that she moves, isn’t there? It was a really artistic show, wasn’t it? It was a real declaration of feminism, wasn’t it? It was like when Madonna did that ‘Girly Show’, wasn’t it? She wanted to say that she was the boss, that she was in control, didn’t she? The way she made all those men in the audience look so foolish was clever, wasn’t it? I wish I had a personality like hers. I’m not that dominant, am I? I’m a much more quiet, passive personality, aren’t I? (This is another irregularity.) These English women aren’t as bad-looking as everybody says, are they?’

SOPHIE: ‘You talk a lot of rubbish, don’t you? Feminism? She’s just a typical nightclub stripper, isn’t she? And the audience were no more than a bunch of chauvinists, aren’t they? That wasn’t art, was it? It’s pornography, sexism, and exploitation, isn’t it? You haven’t ever read any German Greer books, have you?

MARIA: Who? She’s that romantic novelist, isn’t she? I love it when the beautiful maid is seduced by the aristocratic prince, don’t you?

SOPHIE: No, I do not! I don’t read that rubbish. Germain Greer was one of the greatest feminists that ever lived, wasn’t she? You’d learn a lot about women from books like hers, wouldn’t you? You South American women could do with learning about fighting and defeating the masculine oppressor, couldn’t you?

MARIA: Leave us alone, will / won’t you? You shouldn’t be so up-tight and take yourself so seriously, should you? Why do you bother coming out? You could have stayed at home with a copy of that book of yours, ‘Catholic Thoughts, Volume IV’, couldn’t you? Go and get yourself a drink, will / won’t you? You never know, you might even enjoy yourself!