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Osamaelias Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

exam mark mistaken? help a english student please

Hello i had the following question in my exam and i think i was mismarked for it , can anyone help because my teacher says it wrong and my father says it isnt so here you go

d) Circle the most appropriate forms

1) According to the schedule, the conference (starts,will start) at 10 am.

2) Which movie (are they showing,will they show)?

ps: the underlined word means my answer which was wrong , so please see if that is right or wrong with a brief note on why.

THANK YOU
  

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Osamaelias 1) According to the schedule, the conference (starts, will start ) at 10 am. Both are acceptable, but I think the first is more common in this case because it talks about an already fixed schedule. Osamaelias 2) Which movie (are they showing, will they show )?

— Paco2004

  • Osamaelias 1) According to the schedule, the conference (starts, will start ) at 10 am.
  • Both are acceptable, but I think the first is more common in this case because it talks about an already fixed schedule.
  • Osamaelias 2) Which movie (are they showing, will they show )?
  • Both are acceptable and the choice would depend on the context.
  • " paco
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Osamaelias1) According to the schedule, the conference (starts,will start) at 10 am.
Both are acceptable, but I think the first is more common in this case because it talks about an already fixed schedule.
Osamaelias2) Which movie (are they showing,will they show)?
Both are acceptable and the choi
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I agree with Paco on both of them. And in the last one I would also say; Which movie are they showing, for the reason that we do not know about the context, therefore this would bed more appropriate to use.

Jay
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I don't think the forms with "will" are actually wrong, but they are less usual according to the principle that we don't use the future tense when the present expresses the idea just fine by itself.

CJ
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