Add a suitable question tag to the following sentence:
You’d rather stay at home than go to the crowded mela, ________?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → wouldn’t you
Question tag after “You’d rather”:
In “You’d rather”, the short form ’d stands for would. “Would rather” shows what someone prefers. So the tag repeats “would”. The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative: “wouldn’t you”.
Complete sentence: You’d rather stay at home than go to the crowded mela, wouldn’t you?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 2: hadn’t you — Incorrect. This tag is used when ’d stands for had, as in “You’d better”. Example: You’d better take an umbrella, hadn’t you?
Option 3: didn’t you — Incorrect. “Didn’t” goes with a past sentence that has no helping verb. Example: You watched the match last night, didn’t you?
Option 4: would you — Incorrect. This is a positive tag. It goes with a negative sentence. Example: You wouldn’t lend him your bike, would you?