Question

Add a question tag to the given sentence:
She likes to play tennis, ________?
a)does she?
b)doesn’t she?
c)hasn’t she?
d)has she?

Answer 1

Hint: One basic rule about question tags is that if the question is positive, the question tag should be negative. If the question is negative, the question tag should be positive.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Since the given question is positive, the question tag will be negative. Therefore, the complete sentence should be, ‘She likes to play tennis, doesn’t she?’. Hence, the correct answer is option b.
Option a is a wrong answer because it is a positive question tag. The question tag to a positive question is supposed to be negative. ‘Does she?’ is a positive question tag.
Option c is wrong because the correct form of the verb to be used with the given question is ‘does’ and not ‘has’.
Option d is also incorrect because it has the word ‘has’ in it when the verb used should be ‘does’.

Note: A trick to know which form of the verb is to be used in the question tag is to use the verb at the beginning of the question and see if the sentence makes sense. For example, if we place the verb ‘has’ before the given sentence, the question will be, ‘Has she like to play tennis?’. This definitely does not make sense. However, if we use the word ‘does’ before it, the sentence will read as ‘Does she like to play tennis?’. This makes perfect sense. So, the verb to be used will be ‘does’.