Hands across the Oceans » Grammar http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org A Blog for Students in Brazil, Argentina, Romania, Kuwait, Hungary, Sudan, and the U.S.A. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:18:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Differences between ‘Going to’ and ‘Will’ for Future http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2008/04/18/differences-between-going-to-and-will-for-future/ http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2008/04/18/differences-between-going-to-and-will-for-future/#comments Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:39:14 +0000 Dot MacKenzie http://handsacrosstheoceans.edublogs.org/2008/04/18/differences-between-going-to-and-will-for-future/

 

Simple Present Tense

1 Present time

2 Future time

 

1 Class starts at 9 a.m. every morning

2 The midterm exam takes place after about 10 days

 

Present Continuous

1 Present time

2 Future time

 

1 I am watching a movie just now

2 He is going to Jahra tomorrow

 

Modal

-will/shall

1 Future time

2 Promise

3 General truths

4 First conditional

5 Predictions

 

1 He will see her next week

2 I will help you

3 Camels will die if they don’t drink water

4 If I win the lottery, I will go for a long trip round the world

5 It will be a cold winter this year

 

Be + Going to

1 Intentions

2 Immediate future

3 Plans that were made earlier

4 Predictions

 

1 I’m going to buy that dress, even if I can’t afford it

2 It’s going to rain any minute

3 Are you going out later? No, I’m going to help my mother

4 It’s going to rain

 

Will or Going to

Use ‘will’ if the person decides to do something while he/she is speaking.

Use ‘going to’ if it was decided to do the action before the person started speaking

 

Source:

Grammar Dimensions 2.  Heinle and Thompson.

Grammar Dimensions 3.  Heinle and Thompson.

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