Question

Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate forms of the given verbs:

Sonia _______ (look) for a place to live. She _______ (stay) with her sister until she finds somewhere to live.

• A. is looking ........... will stay
• B. has looked ........... has stayed
• C. will look ................. has stayed
• D. was looking ............... will be staying

Answer 1

The correct option is A is looking ........... will stay

The first blank specifies something that is happening that is why we are supposed to use the present continuous (also called present progressive). It is a verb tense which is used to show that an ongoing action is happening now, either at the moment of speech or now in a larger sense. The present continuous can also be used to show that an action is going to take place in the near future. It ends in"-ing".

Thus Option C and B becomes wrong.

For the second blank it specifies something that would happen in the future and it is relative to the speaker or writer. That is why we would be using simple future tense.

In option D, "Staying" is in present continuous tense instead of simple future tense.

Option A is correct.