Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence to improve it. If no improvement is required, select ‘No improvement required’.
You have a lot of coconut trees in your village, do you?
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. don’t you?
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A tag question should match the form of the main statement. If the main statement is positive, the tag should be negative, and vice versa.
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In this case, the main statement is positive (“You have a lot of coconut trees”), so the tag should be negative.
Correction:
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The correct tag question for a positive statement is “don’t you?” This maintains grammatical consistency.
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Thus, the correct sentence is: “You have a lot of coconut trees in your village, don’t you?”
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This properly forms the tag question to reflect the positive nature of the main statement.