Question Tag

(SENTENCE IMPROVEMENT)

1. Ravi has been demanding a lot more (3) will you

marks, doesn't he ? (4) No improvement
(1) hasn't he ? (SSC Statistical Investigators
Grade-IV Exam. 31.7.2005)
(2) isn't he ?
7 The students often play truant,
(3) isn't it ? didn’t they ?
(4) No improvement (1) can they ?
(SSC Section Officer (Audit)
Exam. 09.09.2001) (2) is indeed ?
2. Let us go to see her new house, shall (3) don’t they ?
we? (4) No improvement
(SSC Section Officer (Commercial
(1) do we ? Audit) Exam. 25.09.2005)
(2) don’t we ? 8. He comes here often, don’t he?
(3) do they ? (1) is he.
(4) No improvement (2) does he.
(SSC Section Officer (Audit)
Exam. 14.12.2003)
(3) doesn’t he.
3. He must know them in their most (4) No improvement.
(SSC Section Officer (Commercial
plausible form, isn’t it ? Audit) Exam. 26.11.2006)
(1) isn’t he ? 9. She teaches us grammar, isn’t it ?
(2) mustn’t he ? (1) isn’t she ?
(3) can’t he ? (2) doesn’t she ?
(4) No improvement (3) doesn’t it ?
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) (4) No improvement
Exam. 14.12.2003)
(SSC Section Officer (Audit)
4. His reasons can be good. is it not ? Exam. 10.12.2006)
(1) Can they ? 10. You called on me when I was not at
(2) Isn’t he ? home, don’t you ?
(3) Can’t they ? (1) did you ?
(4) No improvement (2) didn’t you ?
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) (3) didn’t I ?
Exam. 14.12.2003)
(4) No improvement
5. You called on me when I was not at (SSC Statistical Investigators
home, don’t you ? Grade-IV Exam. 24.06.2007)
(1) did you ? 11. They have bought a new car, isn’t
(2) didn’t you ? it ?
(3) didn’t I ? (1) haven’t they
(4) No improvement (2) don’t they
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) (3) have they
Exam. 05.06.2005) (4) No improvement
6. You won’t tell them what has (SSC Section Officer (Commercial
happened, wouldn’t you ? Audit) Exam. 30.09.2007
(1) won’t you 12. It is necessary to consider separately
(2) isn’t it these problems, is indeed ?
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 (1) is that it (SSC Multi-Tasking Staff
(Patna) Exam. 16.02.2014)
(2) isn’t it 19. You are a mechanic, aren’t you?
(3) are they (1) wasn’t (2) isn’t
(4) No improvement (3) are
(SSC Section Officer (Audit)
Exam. 06.01.2008) (4) No improvement
(SSC CGL Tier-I Re-Exam.
13. He was weary of failure, Didn’t he ? (2013) 20.07.2014, IInd Sitting)
(1) isn’t he 20. One cannot be indifferent to one’s
(2) wasn’t he health, can’t one
(3) doesn’t he (1) can’t be ?
(4) No improvement (2) can one ?
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) (3) isn’t it ?
Exam. 30.10.2008)
(4) No improvement
14. We can buy anything in this shop, (SSC CHSL (10+2) DEO &
can we ? LDC Exam. 09.11.2014)
(1) isn’t it 21. She does not tell lies, doesn’t she?
(2) can’t we (1) isn’t she ?
(3) don’ t we (2) does she ?
(4) No improvement (3) didn’t she ?
(SSC Section Officer (Audit) (4) No improvement
Exam. 30.10.2008) (SSC CHSL (10+2) DEO & LDC
15. Children like to eat sweets, isn't it? Exam. 16.11.2014)
(1) do they 22. You ought to do your homework,
(2) is it oughtn’t you ?
(3) don't they ? (1) shouldn’t.
(4) No improvement (2) mustn’t
(SSC Data Entry Operator (3) ought
& LDC Exam. 27.11.2010) (4) No improvement
16. Sachin Tendulkar has completed (SSC GL Tier-II Exam. 21.09.2014)
hundred centuries, hasn’t he ? 23. Mr. Mukherjee knows ten languages,
(1) has he ? isn’t it ?
(2) isn’t it ? (1) No improvement
(3) didn’t he ? (2) doesn’t Mr. Mukherjee
(4) No improvement (3) hasn’t he
(SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry Operator (4) doesn’t he
& LDC Exam. 21.10.2012 (IInd Sitting) (SSC CGL Tier-I Exam, 09.08.2015
(Ist Sitting) TF No. 1443088)
17. Let’s buy a new sari with the annual
24. We met yesterday, haven’t we ?
bonus, can we ?
(1) didn’t we ?
(1) shall we (2) No Improvement
(2) could we (3) hadn’t we ?
(3) isn’t it (4) isn’t it ?
(4) No improvement (SSC CGL Tier-I Exam, 16.08.2015
(SSC Delhi Police Sub-Inspector (Ist Sitting) TF No. 3196279)
(SI) Exam. 19.08.2012) 25. I needn’t get up early tomorrow,
18. The Indian team should fare well, shouldn’t I?
shouldn't they ? (1) don’t I (2) do I
(1) oughtn't they (3) need I
(2) shouldn't it (4) No improvement
(3) should it (SSC CGL Tier-I Re-Exam, 30.08.2015)
(4) No improvement
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 1. (1) Replace ‘doesn’t he’ with ‘hasn’t
he’.
The sentence and the Question
Tag must be in same tense.
2. (4) No Improvement
If the sentence starts with ‘let
us’.
‘Shall we’ is used as a Question
Tag.
3. (2) Replace ‘isn’t it’ with ‘mustn’t he’.
4. (3) Replace ‘isn’t it’ with ‘can’t they’.
Pronoun ‘they’ will replace noun
‘reasons’.
5. (2) Replace ‘don’t you’ with ‘didn’t
you’.
The sentence and the Question
Tag must be in the same tense.
Here the given sentence is in
Past Tense so the Question Tag
should also be in Past Tense.
6. (3) Replace ‘wouldn’t you’ with ‘will
you’.
If the sentence is negative, the
Question Tag must be Positive
and Vice-versa.
7. (3) Replace ‘didn’t they’ with ‘don’t
they’.
The sentence and the Question
Tag must be in the same tense.
8. (3) Replace ‘don’t he’ with ‘doesn’t
he’.
Singular pronoun takes singular
verb ‘does’.
9. (2) Replace ‘isn’t it’ with ‘doesn’t she’.
• Question Tag of a sentence
must agree with the pronoun of
the sentence.
10. (2) Replace ‘don’t you’ with ‘didn’t
you’.
The sentence and Question Tag
must be in same tense.
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11. (1) Replace ‘isn’t it’ with ‘haven’t
they’.
12. (2) Replace ‘is indeed’ with isn’t it’.
The Question Tag must agree
with its sentence both in terms
of helping verb and Pronoun.
13. (2) Replace ‘didn’t he’ with ‘wasn’t
he’.
14. (2) Replace ‘can we’ with ‘can’t we’.
If the sentence is positive the
Question Tag must be negative.
15. (3) Replace ‘do they’ with ‘don’t they’.
16. (4) No Improvement
17. (1) Replace ‘can we’ with ‘shall we’.
If the sentence starts with ‘Let
us’.
‘Shall we’ is used in the Question
Tag.
18. (2) Here ‘team’ is used as collective
noun, hence for pronoun ‘it’
should be used.
Thus replace ‘shouldn’t they’ with
‘shouldn’t it’.
19. (4) No improvement
20. (2) Replace ‘can’t one’ with ‘can one’.
Here the sentence is negative so
its Question Tag should be
positive.
21. (2) Replace ‘doesn’t she’ with ‘does
she’
If the sentence is negative the
Question Tag must be positive.
22. (4) No improvement
23. (4) Replace ‘isn’t it’ with ‘doesn’t he’.
24. (1) Replace ‘haven’t we’ with ‘didn’t
we’.
25. (3) Replace ‘shouldn’t I’ with ‘need I’.
Here ‘need’, a partial modal, has
come in place of helping verb.
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