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Magic79 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
If-clause simple present, result clause WILL
Why do most websites and books use WILL in the result clause and not mention BE GOING TO?
IF-Clause Result Clause
If he reads a lot, his English WILL improve.
Books and websites ignore BE GOING TO which make it look as if it is wrong or unusual to use it in the result clause.
IF-Clause Result Clause
If he reads a lot, his English WILL improve.
Books and websites ignore BE GOING TO which make it look as if it is wrong or unusual to use it in the result clause.
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Hi Magic79. No, it is not wrong ot unusual. The difference between them has been debated here many times, I guess.
- Hi Magic79.
- No, it is not wrong ot unusual.
- The difference between them has been debated here many times, I guess.
- Try searching form.
- Magic79 IF-Clause Result Clause If he reads a lot, his English WILL improve.
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Hi Magic79. No, it is not wrong ot unusual. The difference between them has been debated here many times, I guess. Try searching form.
Magic79IF-Clause Result ClauseHere the narrator makes some kind of prediction or expresses his opinion on it. He might improve or not.
If he reads a lot, his English WILL improve.
Magic79
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Sentences like these sound perfectly natural to me:
If you book first-class passage on the QEII, you will be traveling with some of Europe's wealthiest people.
If he keeps up this progress in reading, he will be entering kindergarten by the time he's three years old.
If we leave a little early, we will be arriving before the rush of the crowd.
If you book first-class passage on the QEII, you will be traveling with some of Europe's wealthiest people.
If he keeps up this progress in reading, he will be entering kindergarten by the time he's three years old.
If we leave a little early, we will be arriving before the rush of the crowd.
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Magic79Books and websites ignore BE GOING TO which make it look as if it is wrong or unusual to use it in the result clause.I would say that it's a little less usual to use be going to in that situation, yes. Maybe it's because be going to suggests planning, and when you're trying to connect a condition to a result as if it were a natural law, p
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