Choose the correct question tag for the given sentence:
"She has brought three cardigans, two pairs of socks and two mufflers".
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Hasn't she?
Question tags:
- Rule: a positive statement takes a negative tag, and a negative statement takes a positive tag.
- The tag is made of:
- The helping verb of the statement.
- A pronoun for the subject.
- This sentence:
- "She has brought ..." is positive, so the tag is negative.
- The helping verb is has (present perfect "has brought").
- The subject is she.
Complete sentence: She has brought three cardigans, two pairs of socks and two mufflers, hasn't she?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: Isn't it? — Incorrect.
- The helping verb is "has", not "is".
- The subject is "she", not "it".
Option 3: Doesn't she? — Incorrect. "Does" is used for a simple present statement with no helping verb ("She brings ..., doesn't she?"). Here "has" is already the helping verb.
Option 4: Isn't she? — Incorrect. "Is" would follow a statement with "is" ("She is busy, isn't she?"). The statement uses "has".
Contrast: when the statement has a helping verb ("has"), the tag repeats it. "Do/does" is used only when there is no helping verb.