I need your comment on "future tense"
From "Advanced Grammar in Use, Chapetr 11"
We can use will or going to with little difference in meaning in the main clause of an if-sentence when we say that something is conditional on something else-it will happen if something else happens first:
1- If we go on like this, we'll/we're going to lose all our money.
2- You'll/You're going to knock that glass over if you're not more carefully.
However, we use will(or another auxiliary), not going to, when we describe a future event that follows another. Ofetn "if" has a meaning similar to "when" in this kind of sentene.
1-If you look carefully, you'll find writing scratched on the glass.
2-If you move to your left, you'll be able to the church.
I don't like his explanation. I need your comment on this. Thanks!
Pastel 
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Hello Pastel, how are you? In the first two examples, the situation is 'now'; 'will'/'going to' carry a real sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view. In the second two examples, the situation is 'whenever'; there is no sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view.
- Hello Pastel, how are you?
- In the first two examples, the situation is 'now'; 'will'/'going to' carry a real sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view.
- In the second two examples, the situation is 'whenever'; there is no sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view.
- 'Will' in these examples is predictive.
- The first two examples are statements of what the speaker believes will happen.
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In the first two examples, the situation is 'now'; 'will'/'going to' carry a real sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view.
In the second two examples, the situation is 'whenever'; there is no sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view. 'Will' in these examples is predictive.
The first two examples ar
02- You'll/You're going to knock that glass over if you're not more careful.
In the first two examples, the situation is 'now'; 'will'/'going to' carry a real sense of the immediate future, from the speaker's point of view. The first two exa
02-If you move to your left, you'll be able to the church.
There is a word missing here? Should it read something like, 'If you move to your left, you'll be able to see the church.'?
If so, I would not say this can be restated as 'Whenever y
0The first two sentences would occur only when the action in the main clause is an immediate possibility.
1. If we go on like this, we'll/we're going to lose all our money.
— You and your friend are playing poker with Dead Hand Joe, the meanest poker player in the West. You mutter this to your friend when DH
0Please write an English grammar story the way as you have written above and publish it. Then I'll buy one...even a dozen.
paco
01. 'Go on like this' can be restated 'act like this', so, I see nothing unusual in: 'Whe
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Please write an English grammar story the way as you have written above and publish it. Then I'll buy one...even a dozen.
paco
Hi, paco! Even a dozen? Do you mean 12 volumes? I haven't seen any grammar book with 12 volumes! He's going to wow J.K Rowling.
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