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Grammarwannabe Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

"Let's not waste any time, shall we?"

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00Is the sentence, "let's not waste any time, shall we?" gramatically correct?02h1

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0Hi,02br
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00It seems acceptable to me, although obviously informal.02br
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0It looks to be logically and syntactically correct, and I've heard it used by people who would warrant a balloon check, but it sure as heck sounds funny.02br
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10Sorry, what does that mean?0-
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11cite20Avangi22cite20I've heard it used by people who would warrant a balloon check.22br
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20Sorry, what does that mean?12br
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0It's what you make a balloon payment with. (just kidding)02br
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00It's a designation given to those whose speech is recommended by management as a model for striving students. (something I've worked successfully to avoid)02br
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00Best wishes, - A.0-
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0Thanks. I was concerned that the "shall we" is added to a negative sentence.02br
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00Also, what are the rules, if any, adding "shall we" to the end of a sentence? It seems a bit redundant 0-
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0With tags, they are usually the opposite of the main statement.02br
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00She's tall, isn't she?02br
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00She's not very tall, is she?02br
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00We should go to the funeral, shouldn't we?02br
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00We shouldn't go in there, shoudl we?02br
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00With this "let us..." phrasing, you don't have
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0 I guess this is just the same as saying, "Let's go now, shall we?" The use of "shall we" here as a question tag is a special case because of the statement intorduced by "Let's..." I've read a portion of an ESL book that was mainly devoted to tag questions and question tags, and the rule says that whether the sentence is affirmative or negative as long as it is introduced by "let's," which sugg
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My girlfriend's daughter, at age four, thought it was "amn't I?" :-)
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AnonymousMy girlfriend's daughter, at age four, thought it was "amn't I?" :-)

It is just at just about this age that children are beginning to realize that there are irregularities in the language they have been learning since birth. Amn't I is clearly the regular form that the child has assumed to be correct, even though she has never hear
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