Pick out the correct question tag for the following sentence:
You don't know where he went,
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → do you?
Question tag:
- A negative statement takes a positive tag, and a positive statement a negative tag.
- The tag repeats the auxiliary of the main clause and uses the subject pronoun.
- Main clause: You don't know (auxiliary do, negative)
- "where he went" is only a clause inside the sentence. The tag follows "You don't know".
- Positive tag with "do" and "you": do you?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: isn't it? — Incorrect. Wrong auxiliary (is for do), wrong pronoun (it for you), and negative after a negative.
Option 3: don't you? — Incorrect. A negative statement cannot take a negative tag.
Option 4: are you? — Incorrect. The verb is "do ... know", so the tag must use do, not are.