Fill in the blank with the appropriate question tag:
The mangoes from Nani’s village were very sweet this year, ________?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → weren’t they
Question tag after a positive sentence with “were”:
The helping verb here is “were”, so the tag repeats it. The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative: “weren’t”. The subject “the mangoes” is plural. The tag uses the pronoun for the subject, so it is “they”.
Complete sentence: The mangoes from Nani’s village were very sweet this year, weren’t they?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: wasn’t it — Incorrect. “It” stands for one thing. A plural noun like “mangoes” takes “they”. Example: The kheer was too sweet, wasn’t it?
Option 3: were they — Incorrect. This is a positive tag. It goes with a negative sentence. Example: The shops weren’t open on Sunday, were they?
Option 4: didn’t they — Incorrect. “Didn’t” is used only when the sentence has no helping verb, as with “played”. Example: The boys played cricket till dark, didn’t they?