Timeline for Present simple for expressing the future
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| Jan 8, 2015 at 11:47 | comment | added | JMB | Example 1: "At some point, you will have to tell him". The present would also be OK to my ear, but the future sounds better here. Example 2: Good point, but you're using "have" to mean "eat" or "go to (dinner)", which becomes an action - much more likely to be expressed with present continuous. Example 3: Yes, you could almost exclusively use the present narrative style (giving immediacy to the actions in a plan): "I find a parking spot, while you go look for a place where we can eat. Then you call me and tell me where you are and I join you". | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 23:54 | comment | added | Bebop B. | Can you come up with a situation when it'd be incorrect to use the present tense in the first example? As to the second one: in what way is it diffrent from saying for instance "I'm having diner with my girlfriend tomorrow"? I have it arranged, yet it doesn't seem wrong to say it that way? The last one is the most vague for me, as I seem to be getting all the tenses correct, but I do it mostly intuitively, without understanding why. Espesially considering that when you type "here's the plan:" in google many of those statements come solely in the present tense. | |
| Jan 7, 2015 at 23:23 | history | answered | JMB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |