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Seagull Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Present progressive or future progressive

Nancy (is / will be ) meeting him at the station on Friday morning.

This is a grammar question about tense. The textbook says that the correct answer is 'will be,' but I think 'is' is also okay because the present progressive can be used to talk about arrangements and plans. What do you think?
  

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I agree with you.
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Thank you so much, GPY.
Now I'm confident about it.
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Textbook exercises sometimes give more than one option that can be correct in different contexts.
We frequently use the present tense verb form for "universal" time, and for future plans. But, given only one choice, the "textbook answer" is the future here.
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AlpheccaStarsTextbook exercises sometimes give more than one option that can be correct in different contexts. We frequently use the present tense verb form for "universal" time, and for future plans. But, given only one choice, the "textbook answer" is the future here.
I'm afraid I don't agree. Unless something in the instructions or wider context shows why t
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GPYUnless something in the instructions or wider context shows why the answer should be "will be", I think it's a faulty question.
I agree. I would not write such a question if I were writing an English textbook. It is a faulty question, but non-native textbook authors really do put misleading questions in their exercises. They can be second-guessed...
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Thank you very much for your informative answer, Alphecca Stars.
I understand.
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