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Old Eladio Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Arranged things and Future Tense

0Hi! Again! everybody,02br
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00Could you help me with this? We can use Present Continuous to talk about future: I'm leaving New York tomorrow at ten. We we can use Future Continuous too: I will be studying my English lesson by then.02br
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00When (rules, if they exist) do I use Present Continuous and when Future Continuous to talk about schedules, arranged thing?02br
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00I think perhaps there are some verbs or situations when it's preferable to use one or another. I do not know when. Would you help me?02br
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0 Hi Eladio02br 02br 00Long time no 01del 00see02del 00... hear! 02br 02br 00It is also used in questions and often gives the impression that the person asking sounds less inquisitive than he would if he used the simple future tense:02br 02br 01i 00Will you be coming to the party?

— Cool Breeze

  • 0 Hi Eladio02br 02br 00Long time no 01del 00see02del 00...
  • hear!
  • 02br 02br 00It is also used in questions and often gives the impression that the person asking sounds less inquisitive than he would if he used the simple future tense:02br 02br 01i 00Will you be coming to the party?
  • 02br 02br 00Cheers02br 00CB 010id1
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0 Hi Eladio02br
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00Long time no 01del00see02del00... hear! The 01font00present continuous02font00 is common when the verb indicates movement and quite often a premeditated action is in question although usage of this tense is by no means solely restricted to these cases:02br
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0Hi Cool Breeze!02br
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00Thank you for your comments. Please, comment the following conclusions I have made for myself. Could you correct them if you can?02br
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01b00The Future Continuous refers to 01u00things that will be in progress02u00 at some time in the future (that have duration and extend over a time period).02
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01cite10Old Eladio12cite10Hi Cool Breeze!12br
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10Thank you for your comments. Please, comment the following conclusions I have made for myself. Could you correct them if you can?12br
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11b10The Future Continuous refers to 11u10things that will be in progress12u10
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0Cool Breeze, you were very kind in anwering to all my questions. I highly appreciate that. I am not an English teacher. I have a lot of doubts about this language, so I cannot teach it and I will never be able to, I think. I just try to learn it as well as possible, because it is a very useful skill for many many things in our life. But you were close! I teach at a university and I teach a scie
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0 Unrelated to the comments above, it's nice to see you here again, Old Eladio. It seems you were missing for a while! 0-
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0 Hi Old Eladio02br
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00Welcome back. 05002br
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00The future continuous is also used very often in "business English" to talk about 01u00standard02u00 sorts of individual business decisions and business plans. In other words, for a specific plan, but the plan is a very typical 01u00type02u00 of plan in
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0Yes, I was abroad, surrounded by English everywhere, and it was a very nice and happy experience. Before I had been in different places around the world and I had to use my English, but this time was fascinating! and I learnt a lot.02br
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01cite10Old Eladio12cite10But you were close! I teach at a university and I teach a science, so something from me I go leaving around me that identifies me. And here it is my personality too, perfectionist, for my own bad. It is a bad thing I have to carry with me. What can I do?12br
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10Eladio, don
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0Hi Cool Breeze! Just only today I could take a look to EF and I read your comment. When you were in Cuba, you were very near to my house (2 km). I've read all Hemingway books. Did you not be at the "Ambos Mundos" hotel where the Nobel writer used to stay before buying his ranch at La Vigia where you were? There, the Hemingway room is conserved as a Museum. Dancing girls at Tropicana is somethin
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01cite10Old Eladio12cite10Did you not be at the "Ambos Mundos" hotel where the Nobel writer used to stay before buying his ranch at La Vigia where you were? There, the Hemingway room is conserved as a Museum. 12br
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10Hola Eladio!02br
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00I had to take a look at the pictures I
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