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Carter Lee Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Why we do not use 'will' for thing we have already arranged or decided to do?

Hi.

In the my English book, it notes that we do not use 'will' for thing we have already arranged or decided to do.

But why?
Why we do not use 'will' for thing we have already arranged or decided to do?
  

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Your book is wrong or you have misunderstood it. I will see him tonight. CB

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Your book is wrong or you have misunderstood it.

I will see him tonight.

CB
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That book's name is 'Essential Grammar in use 3rd'.
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I understand it this way:

I am seeing him tonight. (It's already decided before now.)
I will see him tonight. (I decide just now.)
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Carter LeeBut why?Why we do not use 'will' for thing we have already arranged or decided to do?
If we are thinking of a present arrangement for a future situation we generally use the present progressive - I am seeing him tonight.

If we are thinking of present evidence (including a present arrangement) for a future situation, we generally use
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