Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
I __________ English, Russian, and Romanian, but I __________ Chinese.
A) Speak / don’t speak
B) Speaks / speak
C) Speaks / speaks
D) Speaks / don’t speak

Answer 1

Hint:Tenses are an important factor to form sentences right. Very few get it right. The tenses have to be in the right form to get the answer correct. Repeat the sentences with the given options a few times to choose the right answer.

Complete answer:
Option A) Speak / don’t speak - ‘I speak English, Russian, and Romanian, but I don’t speak Chinese.’ is the right option as the tenses as well as the meaning is right when these words are filled in the blanks.

Option B) Speaks / speak - ‘I speaks English, Russian, and Romanian, but I speak Chinese.’ is an incorrect option as both the words when filled in the blanks will make no sense to the sentence and is grammatically incorrect.

Option C) Speaks / speaks - ‘I speaks English, Russian, and Romanian, but I speaks Chinese.’ is an incorrect option as both the words when filled in the blanks will make no sense to the sentence and is grammatically incorrect.

Option D) Speaks / don’t speak - ‘I speaks English, Russian, and Romanian, but I don’t speak Chinese.’ is an incorrect option because when one of the words filled in the blank will make no sense to the sentence and is grammatically incorrect.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note:Option (A) is the right answer because when both the words are filled in the blanks, it makes sense appropriately. Option (B) and (C) does not make sense when filled in the blanks. In option (D), the second blank when filled with ‘don’t speak’ makes sense but the first blank when filled with ‘speaks’ does not make sense and is grammatically incorrect. Hence it is also an incorrect option. Mostly ‘speaks’ is used when the speaker is mentioning another person. If the speaker is mentioning his/herself, then it is appropriate to use ‘speak’. Tenses play a major role in the above sentence. Tenses can be of three types: past, present and future. Past tense indicates what has happened in the past, present tense indicates what is happening the present and future tense indicates an event which is about to happen in the future. Hence the formation of the verbs changes according to the tenses.