Match the sentences in List-I with the question tags in List-II.
| List-I (Sentences) | List-II (Question tags) |
|---|---|
| (A) Your phone isn’t charging properly, ________? | (I) didn’t it |
| (B) The children have packed their bags for the school trip, ________? | (II) mustn’t we |
| (C) We must reach the exam hall by nine, ________? | (III) is it |
| (D) Our colony used to have a small library near the park, ________? | (IV) haven’t they |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
| List-I | List-II | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| (A) Your phone isn’t charging properly, is it? | (III) is it | Isn’t makes the sentence negative, so the tag is positive. The phone is one thing, so the pronoun is “it”. |
| (B) The children have packed their bags for the school trip, haven’t they? | (IV) haven’t they | The helping verb have is repeated in the tag. The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative. |
| (C) We must reach the exam hall by nine, mustn’t we? | (II) mustn’t we | Must here shows a duty, so the tag repeats it as “mustn’t”. “We” stays “we”. |
| (D) Our colony used to have a small library near the park, didn’t it? | (I) didn’t it | Used to has no helping verb with it, so the tag uses “didn’t”. “Our colony” becomes “it”. |