Question

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

You are in a restaurant. The food is awful and you've decided to complain.
FRIEND: This food is awful, isn't it?
YOU: Yes, it's disgusting, _______________

• A. I'm going to complain.
• B. I have complained.
  
• C. I will complain.
  
• D. I have been complaining.
  

Answer 1

The correct option is A I'm going to complain.

Sometimes, speakers use the present continuous tense to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future, here, the action of complaining is going to 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 either indicate that the action has already happened (Option B), the action has been happening in the past (Option D) or that the action will happen in distant and indefinite future (Option C), hence they're incorrect.