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Peter Orosz Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
Going to/will in weather forecasts
Hello, I was reading through Elementary Language Practice by Michael Vince (Macmillan) when I stumbled across this example:
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PREDICTION - use will
"Here is the weather forecast: tomorrow it will rain in the afternoon."
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However, in a related test exercise, Vince expects us to complete a very similar sentence:
"Have you heard the weather forecast? ... (rain) tomorrow"
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"Have you heard the weather forecast? It's going to rain tomorrow".
Can anyone explain why this sentence does not conform to the PREDICTION example above? Why does it utilise "going to" instead of "will"?
I am not a native English speaker and frankly, I do not see any difference.
Thank you very much for your answers.
Peter
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PREDICTION - use will
"Here is the weather forecast: tomorrow it will rain in the afternoon."
-
However, in a related test exercise, Vince expects us to complete a very similar sentence:
"Have you heard the weather forecast? ... (rain) tomorrow"
with
"Have you heard the weather forecast? It's going to rain tomorrow".
Can anyone explain why this sentence does not conform to the PREDICTION example above? Why does it utilise "going to" instead of "will"?
I am not a native English speaker and frankly, I do not see any difference.
Thank you very much for your answers.
Peter
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Peter Orosz Can anyone explain why this sentence does not conform to the PREDICTION example above? Why does it utilise "going to" instead of "will"? The weather forecast has told us what will happen.
- Peter Orosz Can anyone explain why this sentence does not conform to the PREDICTION example above?
- Why does it utilise "going to" instead of "will"?
- The weather forecast has told us what will happen.
- We now have the present evidence of a future occurrence, for which we normally use Be going to.
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Peter OroszCan anyone explain why this sentence does not conform to the PREDICTION example above? Why does it utilise "going to" instead of "will"?The weather forecast has told us what will happen. We now have the present evidence of a future occurrence, for which we normally use Be going to.
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Ah, thank you very much. It makes sense - it is similar to the sentence "It's very dark, I think it's going to rain tomorrow" - except I am not looking at the sky, but rather watching a TV forecast.
Thank you once again.
Peter
Thank you once again.
Peter
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