Choose the sentences that have the correct question tag:
(A) Sunita can’t drive the scooter in heavy rain, can she?
(B) Your cousins are coming for Pongal, aren’t you?
(C) The water pipe in the kitchen burst last night, wasn’t it?
(D) Ravi’s mother will make puran poli for Holi, won’t she?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A) and (D) only
(A) Sunita can’t drive the scooter in heavy rain, can she? — Correct.
- “Can’t” makes the sentence negative.
- A negative sentence takes a positive tag, so the tag repeats “can”: “can she”.
(B) Your cousins are coming for Pongal, aren’t you? — Incorrect.
- The tag uses the pronoun for the subject. “Your cousins” becomes “they”, not “you”.
- Correct form: Your cousins are coming for Pongal, aren’t they?
(C) The water pipe in the kitchen burst last night, wasn’t it? — Incorrect.
- “Burst” is in the simple past with no helping verb.
- So the tag uses “did”, not “was”.
- Correct form: The water pipe in the kitchen burst last night, didn’t it?
(D) Ravi’s mother will make puran poli for Holi, won’t she? — Correct.
- The helping verb is “will” and the sentence is positive.
- So the tag is “won’t”, and “Ravi’s mother” becomes “she”.