Question

Complete the sentence using the appropriate option:

A: The ceiling in this room doesn't look very safe, does it?
B: No, it looks as if ______________ down. (it/fall)

• A. it is going to fall
• B. it'll have fallen
• C. it's falling
• D. it'd fall

Answer 1

The correct option is A it is going to fall

Sometimes, speakers use the present continuous tense to indicate that something will or will not happen in the near future, here, the action of the ceiling falling down. In that case, we use "going to". 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 is happening at present (Option C), the action will happen in distant and indefinite future (Option B), or the action is hypothetical/unreal (Option D). Hence they're incorrect.