Select the option that completes the sentence CORRECTLY. Mrs. Vyas is very…

2017

Select the option that completes the sentence CORRECTLY. Mrs. Vyas is very much interested in classical music. So she ________ like to attend the concert.

  1. A.

    may

  2. B.

    must

  3. C.

    will

  4. D.

    can

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Correct answer: C

Concept

A modal verb sets the speaker's stance on the action that follows it. 'Will' marks a confident prediction or willingness about the future; 'may' marks mere possibility or permission; 'must' marks obligation or compulsion (and, in some uses, a strong inference); 'can' marks ability or general possibility. To complete a blank, decide which stance the sentence demands, then take the modal whose sense fits among those offered.

Application

The sentence runs cause then effect: Mrs. Vyas is very much interested in classical music, and the linking word 'So' signals a confident conclusion about her likely response. Because the modal here governs the verb 'like', the blank needs a stance that predicts her expected desire or liking to attend - a sure future inclination - rather than possibility, compulsion, or ability.

Among the four offered modals, 'will' supplies that prediction-of-future-liking sense: 'So she will like to attend the concert' reads as the expected outcome that she will want to go, given her strong interest.

Contrast

  • 'may' makes her liking to attend only one possibility among others, which contradicts the confident 'So ...' conclusion.

  • 'must' read as obligation makes liking a forced duty; even read as a strong inference, 'must like to attend' overstates her interest as a certainty being deduced rather than a natural future response, so it does not fit cleanly.

  • 'can' speaks of her ability or permission to attend, a different idea from how she is expected to feel about going.

Note: 'would like to' is the everyday idiom for polite desire, but 'would' is not among the options; of the four given, the modal carrying the prediction-of-future-liking sense is the intended completion.

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