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English 1b3 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Up coming/forthcoming etc

Are all of the following correct, with the same meaning?

Can I use the or this?

Thanks

I will play this coming Monday.

I will play this/the forthcoming Monday.

I will play this/the up and coming Monday.

I will play this/the upcoming Monday.
  

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I will play this coming Monday. This is the only one I would use. I will play this/the forthcoming Monday.

— Avangi

  • I will play this coming Monday.
  • This is the only one I would use.
  • I will play this/the forthcoming Monday.
  • This is a quality of a person.
  • He was not forthcoming in his testimony.
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I will play this coming Monday. This is the only one I would use.


I will play this/the forthcoming Monday.
This is a quality of a person. He was not forthc
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AvangiI will play this/the forthcoming Monday.
This is a quality of a person. He was not forthcoming in his testimony.

It seems my dictionary uses forthcoming slightly differently to both of us, but more in line with my usage:

About to appear or take place; approaching: the forthcoming elections

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Hi, Buddy,
As you might suspect, my descriptions of the usages are based on what I've heard over a long life, not on a lookup. But you knew that!
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Avangimy descriptions of the usages are based on what I've heard over a long life, not on a lookup. But you knew that!

This is of course the most reliable way to establish a meaning after all. But yes, forthcoming elections sounds fine to me, yet this forthcoming Monday sounds a little unnatural, but not ungrammatical based on the dictionary defini
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