Question

Fill in the blank with a suitable option:
You must phone me as soon as _________ your exam results.
a) you get
b) you will get
c) you got
d) you are going to get

Answer 1

Hint: You need to understand the tense which is to be used in the sentence. Tense is a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time.

Complete answer:
In the given question, the conjugation ‘as soon as’ is used. This refers to doing something at the moment when; immediately after something happens.
Note that If the tense used in the principal clause of the sentence is in the present or future tense, the tense in the subordinate clause can be in any tense.
Let us thus analyze the options given to us in this question:
Option (a.), 'you get', refers to a clause in the simple present tense.
Therefore, option (a.) is correct as the most appropriate tense will be present tense since the principal clause is in the present tense.

Option (b.), ‘you will get', refers to a clause in the simple future tense.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as the most appropriate tense will be present tense since the principal clause is in the present tense.

Option (c.), ‘you got', refers to a clause in the simple past tense.
Therefore, option (c.) is incorrect as the most appropriate tense will be present tense since the principal clause is in the present tense.

Option (d.), ‘you are going to get', refers to a clause in the future tense.
Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as the most appropriate tense will be present tense since the principal clause is in the present tense.

Note:
In this question, the student can also recall that if the principal clause in a sentence is in the past tense, then the subordinate clause has to be in the past tense as well. This does not apply for present and future tense principal clauses.