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Re: "will be going to + Vb. inf." Is this expression common?

milky — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:42:31 GMT

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.

Re: "will be going to + Vb. inf." Is this expression common?

Soylista — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:46:52 GMT

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,

>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....

Re: "will be going to + Vb. inf." Is this expression common?

Soylista — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:46:11 GMT

Hi yunus,

>welcome to here soylista Thank you!

Thank you so much for the explanation. I thought this is gramatically correct, too, but just didn't get the meaning wise or "nuance" of what the sentence is trying to say. So, this construction is not "will" + "be going to" and it is the future progressive + infinitive? If so, I think I can understand better.

Thank you again!!

Re: TENSE

paco2004 — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:51:14 GMT

The future progressive tense "will be -ing" is often used to describe a future event that is independent from the volition of the subject.
(EX) Our plane will be soon arriving at Teheran Airport.
If you change the frame time of this sentence into the past, it will be like as follows.
(EX) The captain announced that their plane would be soon arriving at Teheran Airport.
That is, "would be -ing" is an expression to describe a non-volitional future event embedded in a context of the past time.

paco