Question

Add an appropriate question tag:
I have never been to South Africa, _________.
A. don’t I?
B. Have I?
C. Haven’t I?
D. Didn’t I?

Answer 1

Hint: A question tag is a fragment that turns a statement into a question. Usually, the question tag is positive if the statement is negative, and a question tag is negative if the statement is positive.
Example: You are the driver, aren’t you?
Example: You are not serious, are you?

Complete step by step solution:
Let us discuss all the given options in detail to find out the correct one.

a) RQPS: This arrangement gives us the sentence ‘to the airplane the enquiry committee found no conclusive evidence of a thermal shock’. This option is incorrect as the starting of the sentence, ‘to the airplane’ followed by ‘the enquiry committee found’ does not make any sense.

b) QPSR: This arrangement forms the sentence ‘The enquiry committee found no conclusive evidence of a thermal shock to the airplane’. This sentence is correctly started which starts a topic that the enquiry committee has found something. This part is correctly followed by the part ‘no conclusive evidence’, as an evidence is a noun which can be found. The evidence is a proof of something which is justified by the part ‘of a thermal shock’ and lastly, a thermal shock is an action that can be performed on an object, which is testified by the part ‘to the airplane’. Therefore, this is the correct option as it is correctly arranged.

c) RPSQ: This arrangement forms the sentence ‘To the airplane no conclusive evidence of a thermal shock the enquiry committee found’. This option is incorrect as the starting of the sentence, To the airplane does not imply a start of a topic and also it is wrongly followed by the part ‘no conclusive evidence’. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.

d) RPQS: This arrangement forms the sentence ‘To the airplane no conclusive shock the enquiry committee found of a thermal shock’. This option is incorrect as the starting of the sentence does not mention the start of a particular topic.

Hence, the correct answer is option b.

Note: The given sentence is negative, (have never), therefore the question tag will be positive. Also, the auxiliary verb in the given sentence is ‘have’, therefore, we concluded the answer to be option b.