Question

You have finished your work, _______
(Select an appropriate question tag for the following sentence.)
a) Have you
b) Haven’t you
c) Aren’t you
d) Did you

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully, try to make out its core meaning. It has to be filled in with a suitable question tag.

Complete answer:
A question tag is a grammatical structure in which a declarative or an imperative statement is turned into a question by the addition of an interrogative fragment. For example, in the sentence “You’re John, aren’t you?”, the statement “You’re John” is turned into a question by the tag “aren’t you”.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer-
Option ‘a’ is Have you? It cannot be the correct answer as we cannot use a positive question tag after a positive sentence. The initial sentence has ‘have’, which means we can only use ‘haven’t' here.
Option ‘b’ is Haven’t you? It is the correct option as the former sentence has ‘have’, which can only be further supported by ‘haven’t'.
Option ‘c’ is Aren’t you? It is an incorrect option as it has no connection with the given statement, there is no usage of ‘are’ in the initial sentence.
Option ‘d’ is Dis you? It is an incorrect option as it is positive and there is no ‘do’ in the former sentence.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the question tag to be used is – haven’t you? Hence, option ‘b’ is the correct option.

Note:
Question tags are short questions used at the end of sentences for one of the two reasons, 1- to encourage the expected response; 2- to confirm the action/ event mentioned in the sentence.
Question tags are formed with the auxiliary or modal verb from the statement and the appropriate subject.