Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Everyone will ____ lunch by 2:30.
a- has
b- eat for
c- have had
d- had have

Answer 1

Hint: We use ‘will have’ to indicate an action taking place in the future tense. Further, we use ‘will have had’ to talk about an action in the future that was completed in the past.

Complete answer:
 As given in the hint, we use the simple future tense to indicate an action that is yet to happen, whereas ‘will have had’ states a completed action.
For example- (1) I will write a novel.
(2) I will have had written a novel by then.
In the given question- We can conclude that everyone will have had lunch by 2:30. Here, we have used ‘will have had’ to indicate an action that would be completed by 2:30.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘has’ is a third-person singular verb that is used with third-person singular nouns. For example- She has done her work. We cannot use ‘has’ with ‘will’. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
Option b- ‘eat for’ is an incorrect option because it lacks the use of a noun.
Option c- ‘have had’ is the correct option because we form the simple future tense by joining ‘will’ and ‘have’. Hence, ‘will have had’ can be used to indicate the context of the statement.
Option d- ‘had have’ is an incorrect option because we do not use ‘will’ with ‘had’. The correct answer is Option ‘c’.

Note:
 Keep in mind, we only use the third-person plural verb ‘have’ with ‘will’. For example- I will have cleaned the room.