Select the most appropriate alternative to replace the underlined segment in the given sentence.

They met yesterday, haven’t they?

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  1. don’t they?
  2. isn’t it?
  3. didn’t they? 
  4. did they?

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Option 3 : didn’t they? 
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The 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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