Why question forms can be confusing

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hi everybody Welcome to ingvid.com I'm

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Adam in today's video I have a very very

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important lesson for you and the reason

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I say that is because we're going to

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look at some questions that especially

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for beginner and even even intermediate

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students have a very difficult time

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trying to answer and it's not because

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they don't understand the question the

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problem most of the time is they they

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don't know how to structure the answer

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in relation to the question you'll

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understand more when I show you the

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types of questions we're looking at so

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basically these I call these tricky

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questions now for native speakers

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they're not tricky they're just natural

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questions for English Learners they

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could be very tricky so we're going to

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start with Tag questions now Tag

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questions are the way they are built is

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you have an uh basically a expression or

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a statement followed by a short question

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uh yes no question so you like pizza

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don't you

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you don't like pizza do you now you'll

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notice that I have a positive verb and a

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negative verb or I have a negative verb

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and a positive verb so that's how we

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structure focus