When & will

Hi, T509. Welcome to English Forums.

T509Hi everyone.

Are these correct?

1. Will you tell me the time when you will arrive in Narita?

2. Will you tell me the time when you arrive in Narita?

T509The reason why I asked this question is that you cannot use 'will' in an adverb clause such as:

that is a right subject. in this forum like other forums also, there has been serious discussions and several ideas as to will in time clauses. Sometimes even if it is rarely visible, I saw will future tense in subordinate clause in time clauses.

I expect forum Gurus to explain about the subject in details. I believe that their statements will enlighten us.

T5091. Will you tell me the time when you will arrive in Narita?

Here, we assume you are using the when clause as an embedded sentence. the time is unnecessary.

Will you tell me (the time) when you will arrive in Narita? Tell me the time that you expect to arrive (later) in Narita. Tell me now what time is scheduled for your arr

Dear CJ

in the below post you wrote, that example ,I think , is relative clause. it is not a time clauses.


Will you tell me (the time) when you will arrive in Narita? Tell me the time that you expect to arrive (later) in Narita. Tell me now what time is scheduled for your arrival.

Seloc@nin the below post you wrote, that example ,I think , is relative clause. it is not a time clauses.

With the word time there to act as an antecedent, yes, it is a relative clause. But it has the word when, so it also qualifies as having to do with time, so it is really both a relative clause and a time clause, in my opinion. It's not, howe