To be going to go
I think the sentence "I'm going to go shopping tomorrow" is redundant and it would be better to say "I'm going shopping tomorrow". Am I right?
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anonymous going to This is a semi-modal construction that says there is current evidence of a future event. It works the same when the following verb is 'go' as when any other verb follows. So there is a slight difference between the two.
- anonymous going to This is a semi-modal construction that says there is current evidence of a future event.
- It works the same when the following verb is 'go' as when any other verb follows.
- So there is a slight difference between the two.
- The second one does not include the semi-modal.
- CJ
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anonymousgoing to
This is a semi-modal construction that says there is current evidence of a future event. It works the same when the following verb is 'go' as when any other verb follows. So there is a slight difference between the two. The second one does not include the semi-modal.
CJ
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