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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Is this correct?

It is correct?

I'm seventeen going on eighteen next Friday(January, etc.)

Thanks in advance.
  

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No, if you use "going on eighteen" (+/- soon), you should drop "next Friday".

— Pieanne

  • No, if you use "going on eighteen" (+/- soon), you should drop "next Friday".
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No, if you use "going on eighteen" (+/- soon), you should drop "next Friday".
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Hi Pienne,

Please correct me.

The phrase "going on eighteen" to me doesn't mean it is absent of any definite time frame; to me, it means that he is going to be eighteen years old on next Friday and thus, the sentence looks fine.

It to me is this:

I'm seventeen now but going to be eighteen next Friday
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I'm 15 going on 16 means that I'm almost 16.

Sometime in the near future I will be 16.

Next Friday I will be 16.

You can't say I'm almost 16 next Friday.

Do you see it now?
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'going on' is not the same as 'going to be'.

'going on' means nearly. I am going on 18. I am nearly 18. If my birthday is next Friday I will be 18. I will no longer be 'nearly' 18.
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