What of the following question tags is correct and Why ?
Somebody has knocked at the door , haven´t they ?
or
Somebody has knocked at the door , hasn´t he?
What of the following question tags is correct ?
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in modern english, the general subject is not he or she anymore, but they. so when you use somebody or everybody, you can refer to them as 'they'. thus the correct tag question is: somebody has knocked at the door, haven't they? there are some exceptions in tag questions where the auxiliary in the first clause doesn't match the one in the tag.
-Con “somebody” “anybody”, “nobody” “someone” “anyone”, “no-one”“everbody” “anyone”, la question tag llevará el auxiliar en plural y el pronombre sujeto "they", aunque en la oración el verbo esté en singular.
- Nobody knows what happened, do they? Nadie sabe lo que pasó, ¿verdad?
- Everybody wanted to go to the concert, didn't they? Todo el mundo quería ir al concierto ¿verdad?
- Nobody knows what happened, do they? Nadie sabe lo que pasó, ¿verdad?
- Everybody wanted to go to the concert, didn't they? Todo el mundo quería ir al concierto ¿verdad?
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