Question

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

You are a smoker but you have decided to give it up soon.

FRIEND: Smoking is very bad for you.
YOU: I know. ____________.

• A. I'm going to give it up
• B. I will give it up
  
• C. I have given it up
  
• D. I gave it up
  

Answer 1

The correct option is A I'm going to give it up

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