Question

Complete the given statement using the appropriate option:

There are a lot of black clouds in the sky.
_________________ (rain)

• A. It will raining.
  
• B. It has rained.
  
• C. It rained.
  
• D. It is going to rain.

Answer 1

The correct option is D It is going to rain.

Sometimes, speakers use the present continuous tense to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future, here, the action of raining. In that case, we use 'going to'. The present continuous is formed using am/is/are + present participle (root verb+ing). Hence, Option D is correct.

The rest of the options either indicate that the action has already happened (Options B and C) or that the action will happen in distant and indefinite future (Option A). Also, 'it will raining' is an incomplete sentence. It should be 'it will be raining'. Hence they're incorrect.