Using "will" twice.

Hi,

If it is true that we cannot use "will" twice in such a sentence?

"I will even stoop to a queen's work if you will share the throne with me."

It seems fine to me. The 'wills' stress that 'I' am trying to make a deal with 'you'. If you will marry me, I will always love you. I will e

Two "wills" is unusual, but not impossible. In the IF-clause of your example, this "will" has the character of "willingness" or "wanting", not so much the function of a future tense. This helps make the two "will"s more natural sounding.

The caution against two "will"s is for sentences like the following:

*If you will go through a red light, you will get a ticket.

<The caution against two "will"s is for sentences like the following:

*If you will go through a red light, you will get a ticket.>

How about with:

?If you will go through a red lights, you will get tickets.

You can't have "a red lights".

And the two "will"s are still wrong. Changing a few nouns to their plural form cannot fix the sequence of tense problem, which involves verbs.

CJ

I think the poster meant "red lights".

?If you will go through red lights, you will get tickets.

Please tell us why that sentence is not possible.

This seems ok, though:

1. If you will go through red lights, of course you'll get tickets!

This too has the sense of volition that CJ mentions.

MrP

It works fine with two "wills" (contracted or not).

MrPedanticThis seems ok, though:

1. If you will go through red lights, of course you'll get tickets!

This too has the sense of volition that CJ mentions.

MrP

It works fine with two "wills" (contracted, or not). We in BrEng aren't really looking for futurity in such a sentence. It's persistent habit that we are

To my mind, the sense of "habit" derives from the plural "lights". The first "will" denotes "wilful insistence". We can test this with the singular version:

1. Well, if you will drive through a red light, of course you'll get a ticket!

This may be said after one such incident.

MrP

I'm concerned that the focus in this thread on the possibility of contextualizing an improbable sentence may just end up confusing the original poster.

Let's be clear that the following two sentences do not mean the same thing.
1 If you will drive through a red light, of course you'll get a ticket.
2 If you drive through a red light, you will get a ticket.