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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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Present Continuius Tense and Future Tense
Hi,
Both the sentences sound alright to me :
a) I am going to the market this afternoon. (Present Continuous Tense)
b) I will be going to the market this afternoon. (Future Tense)
From my understanding, Present Continuous Tense shows an activity that began in the past, is continuing at the moment, and will be completed in the future. However, the activity "going to the market in the afternoon" does not carry any condition of past activity and present progress. So is sentence a) syntactically correct ?
Both the sentences sound alright to me :
a) I am going to the market this afternoon. (Present Continuous Tense)
b) I will be going to the market this afternoon. (Future Tense)
From my understanding, Present Continuous Tense shows an activity that began in the past, is continuing at the moment, and will be completed in the future. However, the activity "going to the market in the afternoon" does not carry any condition of past activity and present progress. So is sentence a) syntactically correct ?
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Both sentences are fine, and are future forms . The be + -ing form indicates an arranged task. The speaker places the departure between two points, one in the past when the arrangement was made and one in the future when the task is accomplished.
- Both sentences are fine, and are future forms .
- The be + -ing form indicates an arranged task.
- The speaker places the departure between two points, one in the past when the arrangement was made and one in the future when the task is accomplished.
- Present continuous (I speak now in terms of its usual use for a present act) represents an activity which is ongoing at the moment and has the potentiality for continuing from the past into the future; it needn't do so, however.
- I am typing this word continues very briefly from past to future.
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Both sentences are fine, and are future forms. The be + -ing form indicates an arranged task. The speaker places the departure between two points, one in the past when the arrangement was made and one in the future when the task is accomplished. Present continuous (I speak now in terms of its usual use for a present act) represents an activity which is ongoing at the moment and has
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