Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
The business letters _______ tomorrow.
A) Are sent
B) Is sent
C) Will be sent
D) Will send
E) Would be send

Answer 1

Hint: Tense is a category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs. The main tenses are: past, present and future.

Complete step by step answer:
Option A) Are sent – is an incorrect answer because ‘sent’ is a past participle. Therefore, use of ‘are sent’ is not appropriate “The business letters sent tomorrow” is grammatically incorrect because we need the answer in future tense. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Is sent – is an incorrect answer because ‘sent’ is the past tense and past participle tense. Thus, using ‘is sent’ is grammatically incorrect in the blank “The business letters is sent tomorrow”. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option C) Will be sent – is the correct answer because ‘will be sent’ is future continuous tense and the sentence is also in future tense. So, “The business letters will be sent tomorrow” is a grammatically correct sentence. Thus, this is the correct answer and the most appropriate answer.
Option D) Will send – is an incorrect answer because ‘send’ is the present perfect tense of the verb. Therefore, sentence is in future tense and ‘will send’ is not future tense and its use in the sentence will be grammatically incorrect “The business letters will send tomorrow”. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option E) Would be send – is an incorrect answer because ‘would be send’ would is in past tense of will and send is present perfect tense. We need future tense to be filled in the blank, so the use of would be send is grammatically incorrect and make the sentence wrong “The business letters would be send tomorrow”. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
The business letters will be sent tomorrow. (Option B)
Thus, Option B is correct.
Note:
There are three tenses. Past tense is used to describe things that have already happened (for example: earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The future tense describes things that have yet to happen (for example: later, tomorrow, next week, next year, three years from now). So, when a sentence is in future tense then to fill the blank it must be grammatically accepted and it should be in the same tense. So, option B is the best option out of the other options.