Question

Add an appropriate question tag-
I like football, _______?
a) Do I?
b) Have I?
c) Don’t I?
d) Haven’t I?

Answer 1

Hint: 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 (the tag).

Complete answer:
In most languages, question tags are more common in spoken usage than in formal written usage. For example You're John, aren’t you? Here, the statement “you're John", is turned into a question by the tag “aren’t you?”. In the given question, a statement is given and we have to find a question tag for it.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option ‘a’ is Do I? It cannot be added after “I like football”, it will be grammatically incorrect. You cannot add a positive tag with a positive statement. So, this is an incorrect option.
Option ‘b’ is Have I? This is also an incorrect option as if we add ‘have I?’ after ‘I like football', it will be grammatically incorrect.
Option ‘c’ is Don’t I? This is a grammatically correct answer as ‘don’t I' is a negative tag that will be used after a positive statement.
Option ‘d’ is Haven’t I? This cannot be the correct answer as it is not grammatically correct and will not suit the given statement.
As we have analyzed all the given options, we can easily figure out the correct answer. Here, the appropriate question tag for the given statement ‘I like a football' is ‘don't I?’ Hence, the correct option is option ‘c’.

Note:
A rule for adding question tags is that a negative question tag will always have a positive statement and vice versa. A question tag is framed using the auxiliary verb with the subject in the sentence, if there is no auxiliary verb in the given sentence, then ‘do/does, have' etc. are used.