Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word.
All the children ________ on an excursion next week.
a) Go
b) Went
c) Have gone
d) Will go
e) Has gone

Answer 1

Hint: The sentence is referring to an action or activity that will happen in the future. So we need a word that shows that there will be some movement in the future.

Complete answer:
 The sentence talks about an activity that will happen in the future. So, to see what can be used in the sentence we will go through the options and try to understand where and how they are used.
So -
Option (a) – GO: go is in simple present tense and as a noun, the word ‘go’ is used in the singular number. For example he is eager to go to his granny. In the above sentence ‘children’ is in a plural number and the sentence is in future tense and not present tense, therefore, this is not the correct answer.
Option (b) – Went: went is the past tense of ‘go’ and since we are talking about future tense in the sentence, therefore, this is not the correct option.
Option (c) – Have gone: have gone is the present perfect tense of ‘to go’. Since we need a future tense to complete the sentence this too is not the correct answer.
Option (d) – Will go: will talk about actions that will happen in the future and go indicates some or other movement. Therefore, this is the correct answer.
Option (e) – Has gone: gone is the past tense of ‘go’. This makes it the wrong solution as we need the word that is in the future tense.
Therefore, the correct solution is option (d), i.e. will go. Now, this completes the sentence as – ‘All the children will go on an excursion next week’.

Note:
If you are familiar with the tenses it will be easy for you to solve the above-given question. To get you started – you can see that ‘went’ in option (b) is the past tense of ‘go. Therefore, this can be easily eliminated from the options as a solution.