WAEC English Language 2020 Objective — Question 47

Question 47 of 80 from the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) English Language 2020 Objective paper, with the correct answer and a full explanation.

Let's begin all over again, ______?

A. may we
B. shall weCorrect
C. can we
D. must we

Explanation

The sentence is a command. In question tag, a positive command should be followed by a positive question tag. Only two auxiliary verbs ('shall' and 'will') can be used in the question tag; first person (I, we) takes shall while second person pronoun (you) and third person (he, she, it) take 'will'. The sentence 'Let's begin all over again' has 'let us'. Us is a first person pronoun whose subject is 'we'. So, the question tag is 'shall we?'

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