Add a suitable question tag to the following sentence:
Deepa forgot her lunch box on the school bus, ________?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → didn’t she
Question tag after a simple past verb:
“Forgot” is in the simple past and has no helping verb (do, does, did, is, has, can, will ...). So the tag uses “did”. The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative: “didn’t”. “Deepa” becomes “she”.
Complete sentence: Deepa forgot her lunch box on the school bus, didn’t she?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: hasn’t she — Incorrect. “Hasn’t she” goes with a sentence that has the helping verb “has”, as in “has finished”. Example: Deepa has finished her homework, hasn’t she?
Option 3: wasn’t she — Incorrect. “Wasn’t she” goes with a sentence that has the helping verb “was”. Example: Your aunt was at the temple this morning, wasn’t she?
Option 4: did she — Incorrect. This is a positive tag. It goes with a negative sentence. Example: Neetu didn’t call you last night, did she?