Question

Choose the option that fills in the blank with the most appropriate verb form:
Visit at seven o'clock by when my mother __________ cooking dinner.

• A. will have finished
• B. will finish
• C. had finished
• D. finished

Answer 1

The correct option is A will have finished

In order to discern the correct tense to be used in any sentence, we have to keep in mind two things - one, if the options provided make grammatical sense within the framework of the given sentence; and two whether the secondary action in the sentence has completed or is in the process of unfolding WITHIN the relevant timeframe. In this case, we see that the listener is being asked to return after a specific upcoming time, after the completion of an action - ruling out the past tense Options C) and D). Option B) does not grammatically fulfill the sentence as the action is not complete. This leaves us with Option A) - the correct answer, and of the future perfect form - which is obtained by adding 'will or shall have/has' (depending on singular or plural subject)' to the past participle of the verb. The verb in question is 'to finish'; for which the past participle is 'finished'. Applying the above, we clearly get 'will have finished', which is the correct answer.