Question

Read the given sentence and fill in the blank with the correct option:

SARA: I'm very busy. I'm decorating my flat.
BRIAN: ____________ (you/do) it alone?

• A. Are you doing
• B. Will you do
• C. Were you doing
• D. Have you done

Answer 1

The correct option is A Are you doing

Present continuous tense is used to describe an action or event that is going on in the present. The given sentence is a question about work being done by the speaker during the present time. Hence, the tense is present continuous. The syntax for present continuous tense (in interrogation) is:

is/am/are + subject + verb (ing). 'You' is an exceptional case which takes the plural form 'are'. Therefore, the correct option is: Are you doing.