Choose the sentence that uses the correct question tag:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Few of my classmates have seen the sea, have they?
Question tag after “few”:
“Few” means almost none. It makes the sentence negative, even without “not”. A negative sentence takes a positive tag. The helping verb is “have”, so the tag is “have they”.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: Kavya painted the rangoli near the door, wasn’t she? — Incorrect. The given sentence says “painted”. It has no helping verb, so the tag must use “did”, not “was”.
Corrected: Kavya painted the rangoli near the door, didn’t she?
Option 3: The cooks won’t add chillies to the dal, won’t they? — Incorrect. The sentence has “won’t”, so it is negative. A negative sentence takes a positive tag.
Corrected: The cooks won’t add chillies to the dal, will they?
Option 4: Shobha Aunty will bring the laddoos for Diwali, won’t he? — Incorrect. The tag uses the pronoun for the subject. “Shobha Aunty” is a woman, so the pronoun is “she”.
Corrected: Shobha Aunty will bring the laddoos for Diwali, won’t she?