PhillipK  +  510553 Tue, 06 May 08 10:14 PM Julie is going to be 16 next week. / Julie will be 16 next week. > I think both are possible. But is there a difference in meaning? __ When does it start? 17:00 but my car has broken down. I will have it repaired sometime next week./ I am going to have it repaired sometime next week. > What do you think is correct? I think both again. The meaning is different,though. In the first sentence she/he has the car at a service department and is waiting, while in the second sentence she's planing on having it repaired. What do you think? Thank you!     PhillipK Joined on Tue, May 6 2008 Czech New Member 06 Future Tenses

	Cool Breeze  +  510562 Tue, 06 May 08 10:57 PM Hello PhillipK Welcome! Does the K stand for "King"? All your sentences are correct. I can detect no actual difference in meaning between the last two. Or the first two either, for that matter. CB  Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,979 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991

	CalifJim  +  510564 Tue, 06 May 08 11:02 PM  Both are possible in both cases. Starting with the last one, I'll have it repaired reports a decision -- likely an on-the-spot decision; I'm going to have it repaired reports a plan.  So I think you've got the basic idea on that one. In the first case, no decision or plan is involved (obviously), so it's more a difference between a mathematically cold recital of the fact (will be 16) and a warmer, friendlier sharing of a fact (going to be 16). CJ  CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 22,465 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche Difference Between

	MrPedantic  +  510565 Tue, 06 May 08 11:06 PM 1. Julie is going to be 16 next week. 2. Julie will be 16 next week. For some reason, to me, #1 has a slightly more excited air than #2. Thus (e.g.) I would expect to see #1 in a magazine with a readership of teenage girls, in a not very serious article; while #2 might turn up in a serious newspaper's item on teenage pregnancies. (Not that I read the not very serious articles in magazines with a readership of teenage girls.) MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris... Articles

	PhillipK  +  510577 Tue, 06 May 08 11:23 PM Thanks CB. Well the answer is yes and no. It was not intended as PhilipKing but my last name is König (=king in German - although I am not one and I don't even speak German I suppose I have/had relatives of German origin) so I don't want it to sound like I think of me as a king:)) take care PhillipK