My question is: What's the difference between the future progressive tense and the future tense in these sentences?

Dear teachers, 1) Would you please tell me the difference between: a) WILL you come to the concert tonight? b) WILL you BE COMING to the concert tonight? c) ARE you COMING to the concert tonight? d) ARE you GOING TO COME to the concert

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 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

There's been a little debate fired in another newsgroup with an innocent question of how many tenses are used in common English in Ireland. ... As others have said, it all depends on what you count as a tense. I count 14, and these are the