Question

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
Why not _ _ _ _ the meeting for Monday morning?
A. schedule
B. scheduling
C. you schedule
D. do you schedule

Answer 1

Hint:Any a word that can be used to describe an action, state, or occurrence is a verb. It forms the main part of the predicate of a sentence. In other words, verbs are words that describe ‘work’ like- hear, talk, drink etc.

Complete answer:
Before we move on to find the correct option for this sentence, let us first understand what this sentence is trying to convey.
If we look at the sentence, “Why not _ _ _ _ the meeting for Monday morning?”, we can see that it is a strong suggestion given to somebody. The speaker is putting forth his/her opinion of scheduling the meeting on Monday morning.
In suggestions, we can’t use the present participle form of the verb when a clear sentence is intended to be used for the suggestion. So, the word ‘scheduling’ is not correct in the syntax of the sentence.
If we use ‘you schedule’, it would not create the sentence grammatically correct. It would be correct if we set the sentence as ‘Why do not you schedule the meeting ...’.
According to the same logic, the option D is also wrong. Because, it can’t be ‘Why not schedule ...’. The auxiliary verb ‘do’ can’t be set after ‘not’ here.
Thus, the option A is correct here. The present form of the verb ‘schedule’ in its original form will be used where there is no need to mention the subject (‘you’) separately in the sentence.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A'.

Note:In different situations, people have to adjust with their surroundings. Similarly, a verb also has to ‘adjust’ itself in different sentences. For example, the only difference between the sentences, ‘I love you’, and ‘I loved you’ is that the speaker (I) loves ‘you’ (to whom it is being spoken) in the former sentence at present time whereas in the latter, the speaker said the same sentence in the past.