"will be taking", as used above, is sometimes called the descriptive use of the future progressive. It asks us to imagine on-going circumstances during the period in time when the action will be in the process of taking place, not just to

Dear helpers. I learned that I can use the present progressive for the near future e.g.) The shuttles are running tomorrow. A couple of days ago, I studied about the future progressive, the usage of which has one for arranged activities. e.g.) The

Hello Mara I know there is some difference in the degree of politeness between the simple and the progressive tenses about some verbs. Examples are between <I hope that ..> and <I'm hoping that …> or between "I wonder if …> and

Hi, I agree with all this. 1. Action in progress in the future The most common use of <will be doing> is describe actions which will be in progress in the near future. It is often used for visualizing a future activity already

Hello Clive (and Roro) again Yes you are right. To me, some part of <will be doing> looks like to overlap with some part of <is going to do> and that of <is doing>. My grammar book (Longman English Grammar, Alexander, L.G.)

Hello MrPedantic! Great Help! All the more grateful because it appears I had a wrong sense before. I'm interested in those problems because there should (or could) be something in common in many languages. (I have in mind here the difference

Hello Roro! #1 doesn't sound quite right; "up to/until 9pm" is too slippery for the future perfect. The peg slides back and forth in a groove. You have to hammer it firmly into the space-time continuum instead: 1. By 9pm, I will have been

Thank you, MrP, too! For your thorough clarification, which I needed (I'm sorry I was not clear enough about what I understood, what I got from your explanation). Please let me think them over; .. I have just a little question now, may I ask

Thank you So Much, pieanne {!!}　You are so kind...! I have to compose every English sentence before writing, and I have to check my spelling every now and for ever (in addition, you know, the same words!). I was trying to analyze the subtle

Roro wrote: I thought the collocation would be acceptable. Hello again Roro It works as a restatement or clarification: "It looks like I'll be studying for hours tonight – till 1am, at the very least." "It looks like I'll be