Knows/will know

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Hello all!Mike Leigh is a playwright who works without a script, so the actors have to improvise. For this reason , his new play does not even have a title. But by next Friday morning, Leigh will have found out whether his new play meets with the approval of the critics or not. On Thursday evening, the cast will perform "A New Play by Mike Leigh" for the first time and before an audience who knows virtually nothing about it.- My question is whether I could use "will know" instead of "knows" in the last sentence. What would be the difference between the two? If it is not possible to use "will know", why is it that? Tell me, please Thank you very much.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Tanner92My question is whether I could use "will know" instead of "knows" in the last sentence.

Yes, you could.

Tanner92What would be the difference between the two?

Point of view in time.

1. The audience doesn't know anything now. (Usually there are advertisements that tell people a little about a play that is going to be performed, and the only thing they can say in this case is that the actors are going to improvise, so nobody knows any of the details yet.)

2. And the audience will not know anything at the play. At least not at the beginning of the play. They'll find out as the play proceeds.
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So it's a matter of which point of view the author of that passage wants to take.

CJ

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