Question
Download Solution PDFSelect the most appropriate alternative to replace the underlined segment in the given sentence.
They met yesterday, haven’t they?
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is didn’t they?Key Points
- The sentence “They met yesterday” is in the simple past tense.
- In order to convert it into a question sentence, a “do” verb is needed as there is no other helping verb.
- Therefore, according to the tense of the sentence, it will be, “Didn’t they?” which act as a kind of rhetorical question in the given context.
- And according to the rules of rhetorical questions, the answer should be affirmative if the question is negative; the answer should be negative if the question is positive.
- Example: Everybody loves his motherland?
- Rhetorical question: Who doesn’t love his motherland?
- Using other option would render the sentence meaningless.
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