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Chariot Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
verb forms
What are you doing tomorrow? Would you like to go out? (q)
Sorry, I can't. I am going to work overtime. How about Saturday? (a)
The answer and the question are not in the same verb form. Is this correct? If the answer were of the same verb form as the question, would the meaning in the answer change? Thank you for your help.
Sorry, I can't. I am going to work overtime. How about Saturday? (a)
The answer and the question are not in the same verb form. Is this correct? If the answer were of the same verb form as the question, would the meaning in the answer change? Thank you for your help.
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The present progressive ( are doing ) is just one of several ways of referring to future time. The idiom going to with a verb is just another way of indicating the future. So the response is appropriate even though the exact structure is not repeated in the answer.
- The present progressive ( are doing ) is just one of several ways of referring to future time.
- The idiom going to with a verb is just another way of indicating the future.
- So the response is appropriate even though the exact structure is not repeated in the answer.
- Yet, from the point of view of the main verbs ( are doing, am going ), the tenses really are the same.
- This is often more important than other considerations in determining what is meant by "the same verb form".
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The present progressive (are doing) is just one of several ways of referring to future time. The idiom going to with a verb is just another way of indicating the future. So the response is appropriate even though the exact structure is not repeated in the answer.
Yet, from the point of view of the main verbs (are doing, am going), the tenses really are the sa
Yet, from the point of view of the main verbs (are doing, am going), the tenses really are the sa
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