Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option;
Deepti is not very good at academics, ____________________?
a) Is she
b) Isn’t she
c) Aren’t she
d) Are she

Answer 1

Hint: Here you need to use a question tag and when we have a positive sentence we use a negative tag and when we have a negative sentence we use a positive tag.

Complete answer:
We need to choose a question tag to complete the given sentence. So, what is a question tag?
A question tag is a grammatical structure used to change a declarative or an imperative sentence into an interrogative one. For example the sentence ‘his name is Johnny’ changes into – his name is Johnny, isn’t it?
Now, the basic thing to remember is that when we have a positive statement or sentence the question tag that will be used is ‘negative’ and vice–versa, i.e. if we have a negative sentence the question tag used will be positive.
Now, in the above option, we have four different options from which two start with ‘is and the other two with ‘are’.
Now, understand the fact that we use ‘is’ when the noun is in a singular form and use ‘are’ when the noun is in plural form.
So, after the above-given explanation, we can say that – since ‘Deppti’ is a singular form of a noun (i.e. there is only one person) we will use ‘is’ and not ‘are’. This eliminates the options (c) & (d).
Now, as we have discussed with a negative sentence we have a positive tag and vice versa. So, since our sentence is in the negative form we need a positive tag. And the positive tag from option (a) & (b) is option (a).
Therefore, the correct solution is option (a), i.e. is she.
This makes the sentence as – “Deepti is not very good at academics, is she?”

Note:
 The rule of using positive tags with negative sentences and vice versa has to be followed very strictly. Also, keep in mind the singularity of the sentence, i.e. we are talking about only one person and not many.