Choose the sentences that have the correct question tag:
(A) Your brother used to play kabaddi for the district team, didn’t he?
(B) Neha won’t forget the concert tickets, won’t she?
(C) Few shops in our lane were open on Holi, were they?
(D) The farmers were happy with the early rain, didn’t they?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Your brother used to play kabaddi for the district team, didn’t he? — Correct.
- “Used to” has no helping verb with it, so the tag uses “did”.
- The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative: “didn’t he”.
(B) Neha won’t forget the concert tickets, won’t she? — Incorrect.
- The given sentence has “won’t” in both parts.
- “Won’t forget” is negative, so the tag must be positive.
- Correct form: Neha won’t forget the concert tickets, will she?
(C) Few shops in our lane were open on Holi, were they? — Correct.
- “Few” means almost none, so it makes the sentence negative.
- A negative sentence takes a positive tag: “were they”.
(D) The farmers were happy with the early rain, didn’t they? — Incorrect.
- The given sentence uses “didn’t” in the tag.
- The helping verb in the sentence is “were”, so the tag must repeat it.
- Correct form: The farmers were happy with the early rain, weren’t they?