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#191774 Thu, 02 Feb 06 12:33 PM

""We hope that the republics will be willing to ratify the treaty.""

1.Can we use are willing instead?if not why?

2.how about will be will ?is it possible to use in this sentence or not?why

Pleas help me…thanks a million.

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pieanne

#191835 Thu, 02 Feb 06 02:22 PM

1. Yes, you can use both, but will be willing is placed in the future (at some moment in the future), whereas are willing is in the present, now.

2. "Will be will" is not correct. "Will" is a modal auxiliary, not an adjective, you can't use it that way.

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Philip

#191893 Thu, 02 Feb 06 05:40 PM

Pieanne wrote:

1. Yes, you can use both, but will be willing is placed in the future (at some moment in the future), whereas are willing is in the present, now.

2. "Will be will" is not correct. "Will" is a modal auxiliary, not an adjective, you can't use it that way.

I would also add that the word "hope" implies that the willingness hasn't yet been demonstrated, so the original is really the better choice.

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Goodman

#192026 Fri, 03 Feb 06 12:16 AM

""We hope that the republics will be willing to ratify the treaty.""

1.Can we use are willing instead?if not why?

2.how about will be will ?is it possible to use in this sentence or not?why

When we hope for something, that something could have happened in the future or past. In your question there is no doubt it’s in the future. So Will be willing is correct; where as are willing suggests present.

# 2 does not make any sense.

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MrPedantic

#192058 Fri, 03 Feb 06 02:05 AM

In a distant country, the representatives of several republics meet in a locked room to consider the treaty.

On English Forums, somewhat anxiously, we discuss the distant goings-on. We have no idea what is being said and done, at this very moment, in that locked and smoky room.

Nonetheless, we hope – we hope profoundly – that the republics are willing to ratify the treaty.

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