http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aExpressions+tag%3aAuxiliaries+tag%3aFuture+progressiveSearch results for 'tag:Expressions tag:Auxiliaries tag:Future progressive' matching tags 'Expressions', 'Auxiliaries', and 'Future progressive'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/GoingExpressionCommon/2/ckwmm/Post.htm#218700Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:42:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:218700milky Soylista wrote I will be going to stay here for a month before returning home This is an example of double future auxiliary in the same sentence and it s gramatically strange It s not the future progressive and infinitive because the action verb go contradicts the infinitive stay Am I understanding correctly To me will is volitional and be going to is an auxiliary for stay Different is I will be staying here for a month http://www.englishforums.com/English/GoingExpressionCommon/2/ckwlh/Post.htm#218678Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:46:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:218678soylista CalifJim wrote Welcome to English Forums This is the going to of motion not the going to of the future Here are sentences which use both I am going to go shopping going of the future go of motion I am going to be going now going of the future going of motion I am going to be going to New York next year going of the future going of motion Note that only the going to of the future can be used in its reduced form gonna We would not reduce the subject sentence by saying I will be gonna visit Aunt Carol tomorrow Likewise we do not say I am going to be gonna New York next year But we can easily say I m gonna go to New York next year It would be grammatically strange to use both will and going to of the future in the same sentence See next example But that s not what you have here I will be going to stay here for a month before returning home CJ Hi CJ gt Welcome to English Forums Thank you Thank you for your reply I will be going to stay here for a month before returning home This is an example of double future auxiliary in the same sentence and it s gramatically strange It s not the future progressive and infinitive because the action verb go contradicts the infinitive stay Am I understanding correctly Here s the one of the examples I found on the BNC and I didn t guite get the meaning of the will be going to pay part My salary is sponsored by British Coal which means when I am fund raising I know none of that money will be going to pay for my work In this case I don t think the construction is future progressive going is action motion infinitive purpose Although this could be grammatically strange like the Grammar Surgen that Poco introduced http www bbc co uk worldservice learningenglish events grammar shtml tenses says it suggests a particular moment in the future or is this sentence just redundant Aaaggghhh I m getting confused