Question

He's scarcely admitted his mistakes, ........? (Add suitable tag question)

• A. is he
• B. has he
• C. was he
• D. none of these

Answer 1

Answer:

B. has he

• Scarcely ,hardly ,rarely, little, and few are semi-negative words; in the case of questions tags they are treated as full negatives and so the given sentence takes positive tag.
• In English, when the main clause is in the present perfect tense, the tag question also takes the auxiliary verb "has" or "have" followed by the subject pronoun. In this case, "he" is the subject, so we use "has he?" as the tag question.