Future Continuous Tense Quiz 9 — Will & Shall Modals Verb with Option Explanation & Word Power Builder
Future Continuous Tense (Will & Shall Modals) — Exercise 9 (Q&A with Solution’s Explanation and Improve English with Vocabulary Builder)
This fresh practice set contains 10 new Future Continuous sentences designed to test subtle differences in progressive aspect and modal register (will vs shall). Each question uses a useful, non-trivial verb (with a short dictionary-style note) and four plausible options that all include will or shall in different forms. Future Continuous form (will be + V-ing or shall be + V-ing when I/we are used and the nuance is a promise/commitment). Every option includes a full explanation — grammar, rule, and what selecting that option would imply.
English Grammar Definition: Future Continuous Tense (will + verb-ing form)
- Form: will / shall + be + verb-ing form.
- Examples: She will be publishing new books; We shall be coming back; will you be stopping it?
- Main uses:
- actions or events that will be in progress at a future time; to describe background activity in the future; to indicate planned ongoing activity.
- Signal words: at 3pm tomorrow, by then, tonight, during the deployment window, while, when X happens.
- Negatives / Questions:
will not (won't) / shall not (shan't) + verb-ing form;Will / shall + subject + be + verb-ing form? - To learn more about it – Visit Here
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Quiz Question, Answer and Explanation
Note: Do remember in the quiz box above, the questions and options will shuffle, so they won’t have the same sequence like 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C as below.
1. He __ event noise while the aggregator runs.
A) will be deduplicating B) shall be deduplicating C) will deduplicate D) shall deduplicate
Word: deduplicate — verb. To remove duplicate events/records; noun deduplication.
A) Correct: will be deduplicating — continuous process to reduce noise during aggregation.
B) Wrong: shall be deduplicating — awkward with third person.
C) Wrong: will deduplicate — discrete deduplication step, not ongoing.
D) Wrong: shall deduplicate — formal non-progressive.
2. They __ stale feature branches during the integration window.
A) will be pruning B) shall be pruning C) will prune D) shall prune
Word: prune — verb. To remove unnecessary/obsolete items (branches); noun pruning.
A) Correct: will be pruning — an ongoing cleanup activity during integration.
B) Wrong: shall be pruning — not idiomatic with third person.
C) Wrong: will prune — single cleanup action, not ongoing maintenance.
D) Wrong: shall prune — formal, non-progressive.
3. I __ reconcile change notices while reviewers approve patches.
A) shall be annotating B) will be annotating C) will annotate D) shall annotate
Word: annotate — verb. To add notes/information to documents; noun annotation.
A) Correct: shall be annotating — indicates that change notices will be receiving annotations continuously.
B) Wrong: will be annotating — not idiomatic with first person..
C) Wrong: will annotate — single act rather than continuous.
D) Wrong: shall annotate — formal non-progressive.
4. They __ sandbox ephemeral testbeds and tear them down automatically.
A) will be provisioning B) shall be provisioning C) will provision D) shall provision
Word: sandbox — verb/noun. To isolate code/tests in a restricted environment; noun sandbox.
A) Correct: will be provisioning — continuous build/teardown cycles for ephemeral testbeds.
B) Wrong: shall be provisioning — odd with third person.
C) Wrong: will provision — discrete provisioning events, not continuous cycles.
D) Wrong: shall provision — formal non-progressive.
5. We __ feature toggles to gather rollout telemetry.
A) shall be instrumenting B) will be instrumenting C) will instrument D) shall instrument
Word: instrument — verb. (see earlier) Add observability hooks to features.
A) Correct: shall be instrumenting — commitment to progressively add instrumentation during rollout.
B) Wrong: will be instrumenting — progressive but less declarative.
C) Wrong: will instrument — one-off instrumentation, not continuous tagging.
D) Wrong: shall instrument — formal, non-progressive.
6. He __ backfill missing indices while the cluster rebalances.
A) will be reconstructing B) shall be reconstructing C) will reconstruct D) shall reconstruct
Word: reconstruct — verb. To rebuild indices/tables from source data; noun reconstruction.
A) Correct: will be reconstructing — continuous rebuilding activity during rebalancing.
B) Wrong: shall be reconstructing — odd with third person.
C) Wrong: will reconstruct — single rebuild, not iterative background work.
D) Wrong: shall reconstruct — formal non-progressive.
7. They __ orchestrate failover rehearsals to exercise runbooks.
A) will be conducting B) shall be conducting C) will conduct D) shall conduct
Word: conduct — verb. To carry out exercises, tests, or meetings; noun conduct/conduction.
A) Correct: will be conducting — ongoing rehearsal activities over a period.
B) Wrong: shall be conducting — awkward with third person.
C) Wrong: will conduct — single instance, not repeated practice.
D) Wrong: shall conduct — formal non-progressive.
8. I __ the mock data while test harnesses cycle.
A) shall be seeding B) will be seeding C) will seed D) shall seed
Word: seed — verb. To populate a database with sample/mock data; noun seeding.
A) Correct: shall be seeding — promise to continuously seed mocks while harnesses run.
B) Wrong: will be seeding — progressive but less pledgey.
C) Wrong: will seed — single seeding operation.
D) Wrong: shall seed — formal non-progressive.
9. They __ offload cold segments in storage as retention policies run.
A) will be archiving B) shall be archiving C) will archive D) shall archive
Word: archive — verb. (see earlier) Move data to long-term storage; noun archive.
A) Correct: will be archiving — continuous archival activity concurrent with retention jobs.
B) Wrong: shall be archiving — odd register with third person.
C) Wrong: will archive — discrete archival actions, not continual offloading.
D) Wrong: shall archive — formal non-progressive.
10. We __ orchestrate staggered rollout waves to mitigate blast radius.
A) shall be coordinating B) will be coordinating C) will coordinate D) shall coordinate
Word: coordinate — verb. (see earlier) Synchronise multi-team operations.
A) Correct: shall be coordinating — organisational promise to continuously coordinate waves; shall = obligation.
B) Wrong: will be coordinating — progressive but less formal.
C) Wrong: will coordinate — single coordination instance.
D) Wrong: shall coordinate — formal non-progressive.
