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(M. Muhammad, Kannur)

No, it isn’t. It should be ‘He has a car, doesn’t he?’ Take a look at the following sentences. She is beautiful, isn’t she? The students can go home, can’t they? They do want to help, don’t they? He has walked three miles, hasn’t he? In all the examples, the question tag makes use of a ‘be’ verb, or a helping verb like ‘can’, ‘do’, ‘has’, etc.

In the sentence that you have given, ‘has’ is the main verb; the sentence does not contain a helping verb. When ‘has’ is the main verb, you cannot make use of it in the question tag; you have to make use of some form of the verb ‘do’.

For example, you cannot say, ‘He has five children, hasn’t he?’ The question tag should be ‘doesn’t he?’ ‘He has five children, doesn’t he?’

“The first time I sang in the church choir, two hundred people changed their religion.”— Fred Allen

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