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Surfer Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Conditional

Hello, everyone.

Would you please read the following:

"I put my hat on whenever I have a headache. So, if you ever find me wrapping my head like that in the summer agian, then please know this is the reason why I am doing it."

-Is the use of the present continuous there correct?
-Can we instead use will be, i.e. "..this is the reason why I will be doing it"?

Thank you.
  

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Surfer -Is the use of the present continuous there correct? Yes. e.

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  • Surfer -Is the use of the present continuous there correct?
  • Yes.
  • e.
  • this is the reason why I will be doing it"?
  • It doesn't sound very natural to me.
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Surfer-Is the use of the present continuous there correct?
Yes.
Surfer-Can we instead use will be, i.e. "..this is the reason why I will be doing it"?
It doesn't sound very natural to me.
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Surfer-Can we instead use will be, i.e. "..this is the reason why I will be doing it"?
A case could be made for its grammatical correctness, but it certainly doesn't sound very natural.
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Thank you for the answers.
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Hello, ..

Sorry for revisiting this, but I've been wanting to further ask:

It is correct that, and supposing the speaker wants to abstract from the time-context and concentrate more on the thematic point which they're thinking of, that part of the statment be phrased in the imperative:

"I put my hat on whenever I have a headache. So, if you ever find me wrapping my head
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Surferthis is the reason why I be doing it."
Wrong.
See the examples in the above verified responses.
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