Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate tense form:
"Why have you bought so many ingredients?"
"Because I __________ a meal for two people."

• A. cook
• B. am going to cook
• C. will cooking
• D. had cook

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

am going to cook

Answer : B

Explanation:

Quotation marks are used to mention the exact words spoken during a conversation.

So basically it can be understood as the written form of verbal communication.

The first sentence is in present perfect tense, where one person is asking the other about the ingredients for the meal.

Now it is very natural to understand when that conversation was happening the meal was not yet prepared.

And to talk about things that haven't happened yet, we use the future tense.

Looking at the alternatives:

--cook : base / root form of the verb

--am going to cook : future tense; "going to" indicates the intention / plan of the speaker; and with that we use the base form of the verb.

--will cooking : "will" is used in sentences of future tense, but with "will" the present progressive tense of the verb is not used unless it is future continuous tense (i.e. will be cooking) or future perfect continuous (i.e. will have been cooking)

--had cook : "had cook" is grammatically incorrect, with "had" we need to used the past participle of the verb , i.e. "cooked". Moreover "had" is used for past tense & it's sub-types.

Thus, the grammatically correct alternative is "am going to cook".

Therefore the correct complete sentence is:

"Why have you bought so many ingredients?"
"Because I AM GOING TO COOK a meal for two people."