Complete the following sentence by using a question tag from the given options:
Students are learning swimming. __________ ?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct question tag to complete the sentence "Students are learning swimming. __________ ?" is "aren't they?".
This is because the subject of the sentence is "students," which is a third-person plural pronoun. The appropriate question tag for third-person plural subjects is "aren't they?"
The other options are incorrect because:
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"aren't he?" is incorrect because "he" is a singular pronoun, and the subject of the sentence is plural.
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"aren't we?" is incorrect because "we" is a first-person plural pronoun, and the subject of the sentence is third-person plural.
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"can't we?" is incorrect because it suggests that the speaker is asking for permission to learn swimming, which is not the intent of the sentence. The speaker is simply making a statement about the students learning swimming.