The verb will

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Hi all,Please read this sentence:A number of companies sell these liquid-based cooling systems. Although they look impressive and certainly cool your CPU, unless you’re overclocking or want a quiet system, a good fan will more than suffice.I know there will is a helping verb. But a helping verb for what? Do you understand the last phrase completely?

Clive · Accepted Answer

a good fan will suffice.
'more than intensifies.
a good fan will more than suffice.

Cool Breeze · Answer

KhoshtipManDo you understand the last phrase completely?

I hope I do. Will can be understood in at least two ways. It may be just an auxiliary referring to the future, or it may indicate habitual action. Either way, there's no grammatical problem.

CB

KhoshtipMan · Answer

Thank you two for the answers but I don't understand yet!

Cool BreezeI hope I do. Will can be understood in at least two ways. It may be just an auxiliary referring to the future,

OK, will is for future. E.g., I will go to office. Here will is an auxiliary verb helping the main verb go. But does the sentence "I will to office" make sense (when will is auxiliary)?

Cool Breezeit may indicate habitual action.

I was taught present simple tense is usually used to indicate a habitual action.
Would you say another example where will is applied for habitual action please?

Cool Breeze · Answer

KhoshtipManBut does the sentence "I will to office" make sense (when will is auxiliary)?

Your sentence is ungrammatical.

KhoshtipManI was taught present simple tense is usually used to indicate a habitual action.

You were taught right. That doesn't mean that there are no other ways to indicate habitual action.

KhoshtipManWould you say another example where will is applied for habitual action please?

I'll quote a passage from Otto Jespersen's Essentials of English Grammar:

What one does willingly one is apt to do frequently; hence will often denotes habit:

He will sit for hours without saying a word.
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

CB

KhoshtipMan · Answer

Thank you CB but the issue still exists!
What I'm talking about is very clear to me but apparently I can't convey it so that it is completely understood.

I say I can't figure out how it can be grammatical, neither can I get it!
Please read this sentence again: A good fan will more than suffice. Will what? What is the main verb of the sentence that will as a helpful verb is helping it?
In your and my sentences:
He will sit for hours without saying a word. Will = auxiliary helping the main verb sit
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families. Will = auxiliary helping the main verb occur
I will go to office. Will = auxiliary helping the main verb go
A good fan will more than suffice. Will = auxiliary helping the main verb ...?

Cool Breeze · Answer

KhoshtipMan A good fan will more than suffice. Will what?

Will suffice.

CB

KhoshtipMan · Answer

The sentence is still ambiguous but thanks for the replies.

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