Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate forms of the given verbs:
Sonia _____ (look) for a place to live. She ____ (stay) with her sister until she finds somewhere to live.
(a) is looking ……. Will stay
(b) has looked ……. Has stayed
(c) will look ……. Has stayed
(d) was looking ……. Will be staying

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence and understand its context. We use the present continuous tense to indicate an action that is happening at the moment of speaking while we use the future tense to indicate an action that will take place in the future.

Complete answer:
As given in the hint, we need to use different tenses based on their usage in their sentence.
A verb refers to a word that indicates the action performed by the subject. For example- He is kicking the ball. Here, we ‘is kicking’ is a verb that is given in the present continuous tense.
In the given question- We can conclude that Sonia is looking for a place to live. She will stay with her sister until she finds somewhere to live.
Here, we have used the present continuous tense to indicate an action that is happening now and the simple future tense to indicate an action that will take place in the future.
Now, let’s examine the given options-
Option a- ‘is looking …. Will stay’ is the correct option because we need to use the present continuous tense and simple future tense in this context.
Option b- ‘has looked …. Has stayed’ is an incorrect option because we cannot use the present perfect tense in this context.
Option c- ‘will look …. Has stayed’ is an incorrect option because we cannot use the present perfect tense in this context.
Option d- ‘was looking …. Will be staying’ is an incorrect option because we cannot use the past continuous tense in this context.

Note:
Keep in mind, we always use the first form of the verb in simple future tense while in continuous tense, we always use the ‘ing’ form of the verb.