2014-09-03 Structure: future tenses

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Predictions: future events I can't control directly

The newspaper says it will rain today.
The newspaper says it is going to rain today.
(for most predictions, "will" and "be going to" are not really different)

Look at those dark clouds. It's going to rain.
(If I see something right now that makes me sure about a future event, I use "be going to".)
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Plans: future events I can (try to) control directly

will + [base form]: deciding now (+ offers and willingness)
I will meet with him tomorrow.
(It looks like I don't have enough time today, so I'm deciding right now that we'll meet tomorrow instead.)
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[be] going to + [base form]: decided
I am going to meet with him tomorrow.
(I already decided to meet with him tomorrow. This is not a decision I am making right now.)

[be] + verb(ing) = present progressive: decided, prepared
I am meeting with him tomorrow.
(I already decided this, *and* I have arranged it with him.)

simple present: decided, prepared, scheduled (officially)
I meet with him tomorrow.
(We have put our meeting on a schedule or in an appointment book.)
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I think I'm going to go to New York next weekend.
= I'm thinking about it, but haven't completely decided yet.

I think I'm going to New York next weekend.
= Plans and arrangements have been made, but I don't remember the details.
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p. 37 exercise 1B
2 P
3 F
4 F (we don't use future grammar in time clauses)
5 P (could also be future)
6 P - general fact = simple present (always true)
7 F (you're not traveling right now)
8 F (no future grammar in time clauses)
9 P
10 P

(very formal subjunctive: I request that you be here at 3:00.)
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     When I get home, I will cook dinner.
NOT: When I will get home, I will cook dinner.

By the time you come back to the US, you'll have experienced many great things.
NOT: "By the time you will come back..."
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Homework: p. 38 and 40