‘Don’t they’ can be used as the question tag for which of the sentences given below?
(A) The buses to Agra leave from the main depot, ________?
(B) The twins in your class sit in the front row, ________?
(C) The guests have left for the station, ________?
(D) Few tourists visit the old fort in summer, ________?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (A) and (B) only
(A) The buses to Agra leave from the main depot, don’t they? — Correct.
- “Leave” is in the simple present with no helping verb.
- The subject is plural and the sentence is positive, so the tag uses “don’t”.
- “The buses” becomes “they”.
(B) The twins in your class sit in the front row, don’t they? — Correct.
- “Sit” is in the simple present with no helping verb, and the sentence is positive, so the tag is “don’t”.
- “The twins” becomes “they”.
(C) The guests have left for the station, don’t they? — Incorrect.
- The helping verb here is “have”, so the tag uses “haven’t”, not “don’t”.
- Correct form: The guests have left for the station, haven’t they?
(D) Few tourists visit the old fort in summer, don’t they? — Incorrect.
- “Few” means almost none, so it makes the sentence negative.
- A negative sentence takes a positive tag.
- Correct form: Few tourists visit the old fort in summer, do they?