Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the highlighted segment in the given sentence to improve it. If no improvement is required, select ‘No improvement required’.
You have a lot of coconut trees in your village, do you?

Correct option is B

The correct substitution of the highlighted words is (b) "don’t you?"
· The sentence is a tag question, which requires the auxiliary verb from the main clause to be inverted and placed after the subject in the question tag. In this case, the main clause is "You have a lot of coconut trees in your village," so the correct tag should be "don’t you?" because the main clause is positive, and the tag should be negative.
· Grammatical rule used: Tag questions typically use the auxiliary or modal verb from the main clause in the opposite form (affirmative or negative) to match the clause. If the statement is positive, the tag is negative, and vice versa.
· Example: "You like chocolate, don’t you?" Here, "don’t you?" correctly follows the positive statement.
Explanation of incorrect options:
· Option (a) have you? : Incorrect because it doesn’t match the expected negative tag for a positive statement.
· Option (c) No improvement required : Incorrect as the original sentence contains an incorrect tag question.
· Option (d) don’t they? : Incorrect because the subject "you" in the main clause should match the subject "you" in the tag question.