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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

We will have to wait/we have to wait

We'll have to wait until he comes.
We have to wait until he comes.

What's the difference between these two?

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We'll have to wait until he comes. ) We have to wait until he comes. , we'll have to wait doesn't refer to the future but the present.

  • We'll have to wait until he comes.
  • ) We have to wait until he comes.
  • , we'll have to wait doesn't refer to the future but the present.
  • , - So what do we do now?
  • - We'll just have to wait until he comes.
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We'll have to wait until he comes. (Not now, but in the future, we will have to wait until he comes.)
We have to wait until he comes. (Right now, at this moment, we have to wait until he comes.)

This is the most logical interpretation, but in everyday conversation, they can mean the same thing, i.e., we'll have to wait doesn't refer to the future but

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