Question

Complete the given statement using the appropriate option as per the given conversation:

You have been offered a job but you have decided not to take it.
FRIEND: I hear you've been offered a job.
YOU: That's right, but ___________________.

• A. I'm not going to take it
• B. I have not taken it
  
• C. I will not take it
  
• D. I do not take it
  

Answer 1

The correct option is A I'm not going to take it

Sometimes, speakers use the present continuous tense to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future, here, the action of taking a job will not happen. The present continuous is formed using am/is/are + present participle (root verb+ing). Hence, Option A is correct. The rest of the options indicate that the action has already happened (Option B), that the action will happen in distant and indefinite future (Option C), or happens in the immediate present (Option D), hence they're incorrect.