Fill in the blank with the appropriate question tag:
The new water tank was fixed on our roof last week, ________?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → wasn’t it
Question tag after a passive sentence with “was”:
“Was fixed” is was + past participle (V3). The helping verb is “was”, so the tag repeats it. The sentence is positive, so the tag is negative: “wasn’t”. The water tank is one thing, so the pronoun is “it”.
Complete sentence: The new water tank was fixed on our roof last week, wasn’t it?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: didn’t it — Incorrect. “Didn’t” goes with a past sentence that has no helping verb, like “fell”. Example: The old wall fell in the storm, didn’t it?
Option 3: weren’t they — Incorrect. “Were” and “they” go with a plural subject. Example: The streets were decorated for Ganesh Chaturthi, weren’t they?
Option 4: was it — Incorrect. This is a positive tag. It goes with a negative sentence. Example: The parcel wasn’t delivered today, was it?