Question

Read the following situation and form a question using the words given below:

Some friends of yours are having a party next week. You ask:
___________________ (how many people / invite)

• A. How many people do you invite?
• B. How many people will you have invited?
• C. How many people invited will be?
• D. How many people will you invite?

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

The simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet, here, 'inviting a specific number of people'. We use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future. The formula for the simple future (in an interrogative) is will + you + [root form of verb], that is, 'will invite'. Hence, Option D is correct.

The rest of the options do not express this condition.

Option A states an action that happens on a daily basis. B states an action that ends by a deadline and is irrelevant since the sentence has no deadline mentioned. The sentence structure in C is not ideal.

Hence these options are incorrect.