Select the most appropriate question tag to fill in the blank. He has not been…
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Select the most appropriate question tag to fill in the blank.
He has not been here before, ______?
- A.
does he
- B.
had he
- C.
did he
- D.
has he
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Correct answer: D
A question tag repeats the auxiliary (helping) verb of the main statement and reverses its polarity. A negative statement therefore takes a positive tag, and a positive statement takes a negative tag; the subject pronoun in the tag stays the same.
The statement "He has not been here before" is built on the present-perfect auxiliary "has" (in "has ... been") and is negative. So the tag uses the same auxiliary "has," keeps the pronoun "he," and becomes positive: "has he?"
Full sentence: "He has not been here before, has he?"