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Greece80 Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

"will+infinitiv" or "will+be+ing"

Hello everyone,

I have a little question. Which sentence is correct?

The conference will start in four months. It's time to re-booked the premesis.
The concerence will be starting in four months. It's time to re-booked the premesis.

When I have to use "will+infinitiv" and when "will+be+ing", what's the different?

Thanks a lot.

Dany
  

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Hi Dany, Both are correct. When s/he uses the future continuous form, the speaker is usually just expressing more interest in the process, or stressing the activity versus the result. ' The waiter is expressing more interest in your druthers, is thereby being more polite, in hopes of a bigger tip.

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  • Hi Dany, Both are correct.
  • When s/he uses the future continuous form, the speaker is usually just expressing more interest in the process, or stressing the activity versus the result.
  • ' The waiter is expressing more interest in your druthers, is thereby being more polite, in hopes of a bigger tip.
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Hi Dany,

Both are correct.

When s/he uses the future continuous form, the speaker is usually just expressing more interest in the process, or stressing the activity versus the result.

'Will you have red wine with your meal?'
'Will you be having red wine with your meal?'

The waiter is expressing more interest in your druthers, is thereby being more poli
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In this very same sense which do you think would be more polite

'Will he come back soon?' or
'Will he be coming back soon?'
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Hi Maj,

In the very same sense, I think the be + '-ing' form is more polite, or shows more concern about the arrival. In a pragmatic sense, it seems a more roundabout way of inquiry, and can therefore better suggest the possibility of the speaker's coyness, apprehension, or other connotation.
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Can there be surety?. The two examples are decontextualised from actual speech and therefore we have no indicators of stress, intonation, etc. to make the assertion that one is politer than the other. Consideration of the frequency of occurence of such statements in relation to contextual information is or isn't necessary in others view?

Do extended forms indicate more politeness or a p
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The only surety is that you should relax, Mandrake, or this forum will burn you out in a week. Nobody said 'always'; most of us are not being prescriptive, we are just trying to give the enquirer an idea of usage. In this case, if we wait for intonation in actual speech, we'll be here forever-- or at least until new technology arrives.
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The aim is to give an idea of usage, but would it not be better to put the utterances into context?
The only surety is that you should relax, Mandrake


Thank you for the consideration of my health.

One thing of note with the present continuous tense is that stative verbs are not usually used in the continuous form.

Here are some stative v
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