Select the most appropriate question tag to fill in the blank. You have not…
2025
Select the most appropriate question tag to fill in the blank.
You have not been here before, _______?
- A.
will you
- B.
would you
- C.
had you
- D.
have you
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Correct answer: D
A question tag mirrors the auxiliary verb of the main clause and reverses its polarity: a negative statement takes a positive tag, and a positive statement takes a negative tag.
Here the main clause is "You have not been here before" — present perfect ("have ... been") and negative ("not"). The tag must therefore reuse the auxiliary "have" in the positive form and keep the subject pronoun "you."
The complete sentence is: "You have not been here before, have you?" Tags such as "will you," "would you," or "had you" do not match the present-perfect auxiliary of the statement.