Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.
Sometimes we _ _ _ _ _ _ _ cards.
a. Plays
b. Playing
c. Play
d. To play

Answer 1

Hint: Verbs, which is one of the parts of speeches, is missing in the given sentence and we need to find the correct option to complete the sentence which must be grammatically right. The verbs are also called action words.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Words or phrases that describe an action or a condition are called verbs. An auxiliary verb is a verb used to show the tense. It gives information about tenses and voices.
 As the subject ‘sometimes’ is plural and indicates the present simple tense, the wordplay in the option [c] is the correct option. Therefore, the correct sentence formed with the appropriate word will be, “Sometimes we play cards”.
The words plays, playing and to play in the options [a], [b] & [d] are incorrect because the subject is not in the singular form and if we use them in the sentence, our sentence will be grammatically wrong and there will be mistakes in the framework of our sentence.
An auxiliary word is also called the helping verb.

Note: Auxiliary verbs are mostly used with the main verbs in the sentence. It is very important to know that the main auxiliary verbs are to be, to have, and to do. There is another kind of auxiliary verb called the modal auxiliary verb. One often tends to get confused between the auxiliary verb and the modal auxiliary verbs.