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Notaguru Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Future?

What's the difference between:

For the most part, people will just go to see the sights and have a good time.

For the most part, people are just going to see the sights and have a good time.

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Both men & women will have many new adventures.

Both men & women are going to have many new adventures.

Aren't they both future? What's the rule, if any?

Thanks!!!
  

Top answer

Hi, Let's begin by looking in a simple way at a couple of simpler examples. Mary is going to cook dinner tomorrow. The simplest way of beginning to understand 'is going to' is that it shows Mary has a plan for the future.

— Clive

  • Hi, Let's begin by looking in a simple way at a couple of simpler examples.
  • Mary is going to cook dinner tomorrow.
  • The simplest way of beginning to understand 'is going to' is that it shows Mary has a plan for the future.
  • Sounds like she already bought the food and chose a recipe.
  • Mary will cook dinner tomorrow.
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Hi,

Let's begin by looking in a simple way at a couple of simpler examples.

Mary is going to cook dinner tomorrow. The simplest way of beginning to understand 'is going to' is that it shows Mary has a plan for the future. Sounds like she already bought the food and chose a recipe.

Mary wil
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These are my interpretations:


For the most part, people will just go to see the sights and have a good time. -- Describes what people will do in the future, or, with less of a direct sense of the actual future, describes people's general habits (what they are generally expected to do).

For the most part, people are just going to see the sights
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