Question

Don’t touch that hot stove. _______. (Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option.)
A) It’ll get burned
B) It’ll be burned
C) You’ll burn it
D) You’ll get burned

Answer 1

Hint: Here we have to form a sentence that makes sense and gives proper context to the preceding sentence. A sentence is a meaningful collection of words that has a subject, a verb, and an object. In English, this is known as the SVO structure or the Subject-Verb-Object structure.

Complete answer:
The question “Don't touch the hot stove” is an example of a negative imperative phrase. You're asking others not to do anything instead of telling them to do something. so this is a negative imperative sentence.

Here we will evaluate all the options given in the question to arrive at our final answer. The final answer should be logically and grammatically correct. Since “will” is to be used, the sentence will be in the future tense.

Now let us evaluate the options:
Option A) It’ll get burned – This option is incorrect as the stove cannot get burned. The stove is used for cooking or melding and it is generally heated hence the phrase that the stove will get burned will not be logically correct.
Option B) It’ll be burned – This option is incorrect for the same reasons given in Option A. The use of the auxiliary verb “be” will make no difference in the given case.
Option C) You’ll burn it – This option is incorrect because the preceding sentences is a declarative sentence suggesting an action to not touch the stove. A person by himself cannot burn the stove.
Option D) You’ll get burned – This option is correct since a person will get burned if they touch the hot stove.

After selecting Option D, the next sentence “You’ll get burned.” is a declarative sentence. A declarative sentence is one that makes a claim, states a fact, explains something, or conveys details. Here a fact is stated that one will get burned if they touch the stove.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘D’ i.e, The sentence will be “Don’t touch that hot stove. You’ll get burned.”

Note: We identified the given question, the first sentence “Don’t touch that hot stove.” is an imperative sentence. Imperative sentences are used to give an order or instruction, to request something, or to give advice. They essentially tell people what to do. Here a command is given to not touch the stove. These sentences often tend to be devoid of a subject, or the person, location, or thing who or which performs the main action.