Will + simple future
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I was reading a book (Emotional Intelligence,by D.Goleman) on page 130 and I've found the following sentence :
"mask your real feelings when they will hurt someone you love;substitute a phony,but less hurtful feeling instead".I am curious about the use of when and the future form.Can you please explain? I am not a native English speaker
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You can project the future with "will" + bare infinitive or a form of the present tense of "be" + going + infinitive. "When" doesn't really matter so much; it could be "if," for example. Mask your feelings when they will hurt someone...
- You can project the future with "will" + bare infinitive or a form of the present tense of "be" + going + infinitive.
- "When" doesn't really matter so much; it could be "if," for example.
- Mask your feelings when they will hurt someone...
- Mask your feelings when they are going to hurt someone...
- Mask your feelings if they are going to hurt someone...
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You can project the future with "will" + bare infinitive or a form of the present tense of "be" + going + infinitive. "When" doesn't really matter so much; it could be "if," for example.
Mask your feelings when they will hurt someone...
Mask your feelings when they are going to hurt someone...
Mask your feelings if they are going to hurt someone...
Mask your feelings if
0lime mango 116I am curious about the use of when and the future form.
The usual caution against using 'will' in a when-clause does not apply here because 'when' is equivalent to 'whenever' or 'if'.
(I think you meant you header to be When + simple future.)
CJ
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