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What are the transitive and intransitive verbs? | "faced" or "was faced with"
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 13:01 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Alan wrote:
All the same really aren't they? Or are they?

Hi

I cannot understand the use of the question tag in the above sentence! Could you please tell me why the last part is added--I mean, "or are they"? Isn't that included in "all are same really"? Is it for emphasis? If I wrote this sentence, it would be something like:

All are same, aren't they?

Please shed some light on the last part?

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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 13:07 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Hi Tom

With out seeing the full version I think zhe writer is deliberately trying to get the reader to question himself as to the answer or the writer is expressing his own indecision. Either the certainty or "sureness" of the answer is being questioned in itself.
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 14:07 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Tom wrote:
All are same, aren't they?

No, Tom, "all are same" is not correct. The full sentence would read: "They are all the same really, ... Subject and verb have been omitted, as they are easily implied.

stew.t. wrote:
zhe writer

Been living too long in Germany, haven't you? Or have you?
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 14:59 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Hi Tom

You seem to have misread Alan's original sentence which was "All the same" and not "All are same".

As Conchita pointed out, the words Alan omitted were "They are":
(They are) all the same really, aren't they?

As regards the tag question, it might be best if Alan explains why he wrote what he wrote. As for me, I would understand his tag question (..., aren't they?) as meaning "This is what I think is true and I think you'll agree". The follow-up question (Or are they?) indicates that, on second thought, he's not completely sure that you'll agree.

As Stew mentioned, the rest of the context would also be helpful.

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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 20:19 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Conchita

That was a slip of the finger that is ironically coincidental, look at your keyboard and you will see t and z together. Maybe been here too long though. I used or as a tag the other day.
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 22:37 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
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I've just started using an American keyboard (my German one is still at sea on a container ship) and the 'z' is no longer next to the 't'. I'm having a terrible time adjusting. Laughing I keep spelling my own name wrong.

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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 22:57 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Context? It's here.

http://www.english-test.net/forum/search.php?mode=results

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PS: Could I say "Here it is!" or "Here is it!"
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Mon Jan 08, 2007 23:00 pm  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
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You'd say "Here it is", Tom. Unfortunately I couldn't utter that when I clicked your link. Laughing
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 0:21 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
stew.t. wrote:
look at your keyboard and you will see t and z together. Maybe been here too long though. I used or as a tag the other day.

Incidentally, where you have a 'z' I have a 'y' and vice versa. Komisch, oder?
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 0:31 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Yankee wrote:
.Amz Wink

Amz zzz

It looks as if you had fallen asleep in the middle of writing your name, Zankee!
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 0:55 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Hey

Just a trick cultural stumble block for you conchita. Komisch nicht ich bin mehr bewohnt jetzt
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:18 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
stew.t. wrote:
Conchita

That was a slip of the finger that is ironically coincidental, look at your keyboard and you will see t and z together. Maybe been here too long though. I used or as a tag the other day.

And on my keyboard z and x stand together Laughing
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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:28 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
stew.t. wrote:
Komisch nicht ich bin mehr bewohnt jetzt.

That was another typo, wasn't it, Stew?
Or what exactly are you inhabited by? Laughing

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Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?" Tue Jan 09, 2007 3:36 am  Question tag: "All the same really aren't they? Or are they?"		  
Pamela wrote:
And on my keyboard z and x stand together Laughing
Yes, that's how the 'z' and the 'x' are on my current (US) keyboard. On my German keyboard, the 'y' is where the 'z' is (and vice versa). Laughing

Fortunately, I don't sign my posts with "Yankee" otherwise I'm sure I'd have already typed "Zankee" a number of times, too. Laughing

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