Foundation
English
Verb
Tenses
Tenses
Question
Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate option:
"_______ any of you speak Italian?"
"No, but we are learning it and I hope we _______ speak it next year."
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Solution
The correct answer is Option C.
CAN means ability. The speaker is asking if the person is able to speak Italian.
SHALL BE ABLE TO expresses the future tense. The person is learning Italian and is hoping to be able to speak it next year.
Thus Option C is the correct answer.
The remaining options are incorrect because:
MUST and WILL HAVE TO express compulsion.
MAY expresses possibility. HAVE GOT TO expresses need.
COULD expresses the ability to do something. It is the past tense of CAN. The sentence is in the present tense.
MIGHT expresses possibility.