Choose the appropriate question tag for the following statement:
You're the new secretary.
A. Aren't you?
B. Are you?
C. Weren't you?
D. Couldn't you?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A only
Question tags:
- A positive statement takes a negative tag, and a negative statement takes a positive tag.
- The tag uses the same auxiliary verb and tense as the statement, and a pronoun for the subject.
- This sentence: "You're" = You are, positive and in the present.
A. Aren't you? — Correct.
- Negative tag, same auxiliary (are), same tense.
Example: They are your cousins, aren't they?
B. Are you? — Incorrect.
- A positive tag after a positive statement.
C. Weren't you? — Incorrect.
- It is in the past tense.
- The statement is in the present.
D. Couldn't you? — Incorrect.
- It uses a different auxiliary (could).