Affermative and Negative Agreement

Agreeing and disagreeing

When people speak together, they often agree, or disagree about things. For example:

• My father likes volleyball and I like football.
• My father is tired and I am tired.
• My father doesn't like cheese amd I don't like cheese.
• My father is not patient, and I am not patient.

Things that are true for us

When we speak about these things, it is possible that I want to explain that the things that are true for my father are also true, or not true, for me.
Below are some of the ways we can do this:

So + Neither (with be and do)

We use so and neither (or not either) when we want to agree that something which is true for another person is also true for us.

We use 'so' to agree with positive statements and 'neither' (or 'not either') to agree with negative statements. If the main verb in the statement is 'be', we use 'be' in the response, but for all other verbs, we use 'do' in the response. If the statement uses a modal verb (such as can, would, will, etc) we use the same modal in our response.

Form:
So + verb + subject (to agree with positive statements)
Neither + verb + subject (to agree with negative statements)

Examples

• My father says: "I like football."
  My response is: "So do I."
• My father says: "I'm tired."
  My response is: "So am I."
• My father says: "I don't like cheese."
  My response is: "Neither do I."
• My father says: "I am not very patient with other people."
  My response is: "Neither an I."
• My father says: "I would like a beer!"
  My response is: "So would I."
• My father says: "I can't swim very well."
  My response is: "Neither can I."

Things that aren't true for us

We use the verb 'be' or the auxiliary verb 'do' without 'so' or 'neither' when we want to say that what is true for another person is not true for us.

In the examples below, John makes a statement but Simon does not agree with him.

• John says: "Im tired."
  Simon replies: "I'm not."
• John says: "I'm not sleepy."
  Simon replies: "I am."
• John says: "I like mushrooms."
  Simon says: "I don't."
• John and his wife say: "We don't like art."
  Simon and his wife reply: "We do."

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TOEFL

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TOEFL (Test OF A Foreign Language) is a test that measures your English reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. If you want to study abroad that are used by universities to students accepted. I have several ways to solve a written test on the TOEFL test of my college professor named Ms Wati Purnama.  
Here are 3 steps to setences:1. First, you must analyze the verb of setences. Then you can put the subject, verb, object and complement (if any).2. Look complementary to time adverbs in sentences so that you will know tenses.3. Determine the subject for singular or plural noun then you can solve the verb if false in sentences. 
Example:Jakarta has a lot of big mallstep 1verb is a word used to describe an action and to-be can also be a verbso also is a verbJakarta has a lot of big mall
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Jakarta has a lot of big mall     S      P            Ostep 2If there are no instructions for the adverb of time so that we can see whether it is the simple present tense.step 3You can see Jakarta as a subject in setences so that you can determine it is a singular noun in the singular noun then we have to use the verb "have" to this sentence.There are a few tips for you to solve sentences hope it can make you have a better score on your TOEFL test.