Direction: In the following questions, a part of the sentence is in bold. Below are given alternatives to the bold part at 1, 2 and 3 which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alter native. In case no improvement is needed, your answer is (4).
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The students often play truant, didn’t they ?
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- can they ?
- is indeed ?
- don’t they ?
- No improvement
Correct Option: C
truant (Verb) : (of a child) to stay away from school without permission
Positive Statement → Negative Tag
The sentence structure is as follows :
| Subject + | |||
| The students | X | play | do |
| not + | |||
| not | they |
do not → don’t
Hence, don’t they ? is the right usage.
