will be waking up now

0She used to be a teacher, but now she works in publishing.02br
00I may eat something later, but I'm not hungry now.02br
00Many people now own a video recorder.02br
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00She's been a vegetarian for ten years now.02br
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00Now isn't a good time to speak to him.02br
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0 Ok, 01b00now 02b00is not used only in the present continuous. But what about future tenses?02br
01i00"They will be waking up now"02br
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02i00My logic tells me that 01b00now02b00 is at the present, 01b00then02b00 is in the future and in the past.0-

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01cite10Selecter12cite10Mr. Grinch had stolen all the presents in the town and yelled: "They will be waking up now"12br
10Isn't 11b10now12b10 only for the present continuous?12br
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10Apart from being used with verbs that don't usually take the (present) continuous

0 Is it from spoken english?02br
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00Here's what I've found:02br
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0 In my opinion this is the 01i00will02i00 of probability, not the 01i00will02i00 of the future.02br
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01i00They will be waking up now = They are probably waking up now.02i02br
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00 It simultaneously has a component like the 01i00will02i00 of habitual action.02br

0 Thanks, CalifJim! :-)02br
00I've heard about "will in this context" in sentences like this one: He would come here once in a week in the olden days0-

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00He would come here once in a week ... 12blockquote

10Yes, exactly. Habitual 01i00would02i00 is, of course, the past tense of habitual 01i00will02i00. 05002br
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