Fill in the blank: Someone interested in attending a concert with friends often ____ into getting a group rate.

Fill in the blank: Someone interested in attending a concert with friends often ____ into getting a group rate.

• A. look
• B. looking
• C. looked
• D. looks

Answer: (D)

Subject-verb agreement in the present tense with a singular subject is at play here. "Someone" is a singular indefinite pronoun, so the verb must take the third-person singular form. The word "often" signals present simple, so the base verb should gain an -s: "looks." The phrasal verb "look into" means to investigate or consider, so combining with "into getting a group rate" makes natural sense. Thus the sentence should read: Someone interested in attending a concert with friends often looks into getting a group rate. The other forms don’t fit because "look" lacks the -s needed for a singular subject, "looking" would clash with the present tense without an auxiliary, and "looked" is past tense.

Subject-verb agreement in the present tense with a singular subject is at play here. "Someone" is a singular indefinite pronoun, so the verb must take the third-person singular form. The word "often" signals present simple, so the base verb should gain an -s: "looks." The phrasal verb "look into" means to investigate or consider, so combining with "into getting a group rate" makes natural sense. Thus the sentence should read: Someone interested in attending a concert with friends often looks into getting a group rate. The other forms don’t fit because "look" lacks the -s needed for a singular subject, "looking" would clash with the present tense without an auxiliary, and "looked" is past tense.