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Help the pretentious food critic finish his scathing review of a new avant-garde restaurant by selecting the correct substitutions.
The appetizers arrived completely frozen, and _________________________ the supposedly warm bread rolls. The head chef clearly despises the restaurant's owner, and after tasting the soup, I assure you, I _________________________. The manager begged me to leave a five-star rating to save their reputation, but as a culinary professional, I absolutely refused to _________________________.
The correct answers are so did, do too, and do so.
To agree with an affirmative statement, we use so + auxiliary + subject. The correct auxiliary for the past tense verb arrived is did.
We use the auxiliary do (or do too) to avoid repeating a verb phrase. We cannot use do so here because despise is a stative verb (a state of mind/feeling), and do so can only be used to replace dynamic (action) verbs.
Do so is used in formal contexts to replace an action verb and its objects (leave a five-star rating). Do it so and make so are incorrect grammatical combinations.