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wber
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Vietnamese, French
| Message 33 of 33 25 February 2013 at 7:55am | IP Logged |
Darklight1216 wrote:
wber wrote:
Darklight1216 wrote:
It is going to rain on Monday?
They say we're having snow on Tuesday?
Maybe even "A storm is coming tomorrow..." |
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1. It is going to rain tomorrow- "going to refers to the future tense" |
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http://www.verbix.com/webverbix/English/go.html
Verbix.com says that "is going" is present (progessive) indicative. Of course, you can also refer to it as the (simple?) future tense. However, I think you could make the argument that we English speakers know on some level that our "present selves" will be in the future or whatever.
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2. We're having snow on Tuesday?- more of a question than a statement |
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I used a question mark because I wanted to show that I was making a suggestion to the person I quoted. You can easily tell someone "We're having snow on Tuesday" and use it as a statement. I hear that sort of declaration all the time (thankfully, it's mostly been wrong this season).
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3. "A storm is coming tomorrow" is closest but it just doesn't feel right.
The closest I can think of is There's a storm coming. Maybe it only works for questions?
Ex.It's raining tomorrow?, The sun's out tomorrow? |
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Those are pretty much the same thing....
I'm not trying to offend you, so don't take this the wrong way, but what part of the US are you from (or are you perhaps a visitor)? Here in my area of the east coast "A storm's coming tomorrow" (Usually preceeded by "they say") is much more common then asking "The sun's out tomorrow?" For that I'd expect to hear "Are they calling for sunshine tomorrow?"
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Don't worry about offending me. Sometimes I like to be offended, it actually makes me think. Besides, I''m kinda sick of all this PC craziness that's going on in this country. I live on the West Coast, more specifically California so I guess there are some regional things. Yes, we do tend to say like a lot, but not 3 times in 1 sentence. The sentences were just some examples that I was thinking of off the top of my very tired mind at that moment. Oh well. I've never been really good at grammar anyway. That's why I''m not an English teacher :)
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