Question

Choose the option that completes the sentence correctly:
I will try to help Harry ______ work by tomorrow.
A) In completing.
B) Completing.
C) To complete.
D) Complete.

Answer 1

Hint: A future tense is a verb form that usually indicates the event represented by the verb has not yet occurred but is expected to occur in the future. For example, Ram will eat Apple. In future tense, we use will and shall as helping verbs and use the present tense.

Complete answer:
Let us loo into the given options:
Option A) In completing - the word in is propulsion and completing is a verb of present participial tense and given sentence is future indefinite tense, however, we need the answer as simple future tense to be filled in the blank. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Completing - is a present participial tense helping verb and a given sentence is future indefinite tense. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) To complete - the verb succeeding it cannot be used in the 'to infinitive' sense since we've already used it. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) In this sentence, there are many verbs. The key verb is 'will try,' which indicates the future tense. The verb 'help' is then followed by the 'to help' form. So, the correct answer is 'complete'.

I will try to help Harry complete the work by tomorrow. (Option D)

Note: Many languages have grammatical means to indicate the time when an action or event occurs, or when a state or process holds. This phenomenon is called tense. Adding the morpheme -ed to the verb walk in English, for example, indicates that the event described by the verb occurred before the present time.

We can divide tense into three types.
- Present Tense : the sentence which represents the present timeline.
- Past Tense: the sentence which represents a past timeline.
- Future Tense: the sentence which represents the future timeline.