Reality TV is vulgar and shoddy. By creating pseudo-celebrities it contributes to the debasement of popular taste.
It is often cruel, exposing the participants to gross humiliation for our amusement. This makes it the modern equivalent of going to laugh at the lunatics in Bedlam. The present row over racism on Big Brother shows how nasty it can be.
It exploits the vulnerable, and has been condemned by the Mental Health Foundation for doing so.
Popularity should not be the ultimate test of what is permissible. Public executions used to be popular and still are in some countries.
It is nonsense to say that broadcasters shouldn't set standards or be obliged to adhere to codes of behaviour. We don't for instance allow them to promote racism or sectarianism or to incite violence. Reality TV is debasing and should be strictly controlled, if not banned altogether.
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1. Was shining.
2. They were running away
3. Opened
4. Was thinking about
5. Showed
6. Phoned
Present Continuous
They are playing computer games now. - предложение
They aren't playing computer games now. - отрицание
Are they playing computer games now? - общий вопрос
Who is playing computer games now? - вопрос к подлежащему
What are they doing now? - специальный вопрос
Are they are playing computer games or football now? - альтернативный вопрос
They are playing computer games now, aren't they? - разделительный вопрос
Past Continuous
She was reading a book at 6 yesterday. - предложение
She wasn't reading a book at 6 yesterday. - отрицание
Was she reading a book at 6 yesterday? - общий вопрос
Who was reading a book at 6 yesterday? - вопрос к подлежащему
What was she doing at 6 yesterday? - специальный вопрос
Was she reading a book or a newspaper at 6 yesterday? - альтернативный вопрос
She was reading a book at 6 yesterday, wasn't she? - разделительный вопрос
В принципе одно и то же, слово shall устаревает .
Но в устоявшихся выражениях используется только это слово.
<span>Let's go, shall we? Ну что, пойдем?</span>
1. May I give you SOME more tea?
2. SOMEBODY has been here : there are footsteps in the snow.
3. Can one send telegrams at ANY hour of the night?
4. Have you heard ANYTHING about him since that day?
5. Is there NO telephone in your house that you didn't ring up? He hasn't yet come back from school.