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'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle Mon Nov 13, 2006 23:20 pm  'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle
 

Hi

I remember previous discussions and explanations about the uses (and not uses Smile ) of Future tenses for the future. Smile
In English.

‘The future will be better tomorrow.’ © Dan Quayle
‘Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day.’


(Sorry for, perhaps, very stupid question)
Could the above phrases be reworded with Present tense without loss in meaning?
Or it’s impossible (or meaningless) task?
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'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle Tue Nov 14, 2006 0:08 am  'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle
 

Hi Tamara

There are no stupid questions... but Dan Quayle is certainly known to have given his share of "not-so-clever" answers. Of all the people you could have quoted, why did you have to pick him? That's the guy who can't spell 'potato'. Laughing

I might use the simple present tense in the second sentence if, for example, I meant that I know for a fact that tomorrow is a better day to do something than today is.

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'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle Tue Nov 14, 2006 6:44 am  'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle
 

Hi,

Sorry to butt in but I would like to share with you my favorite quotation, the ending of the book 'Gone With The Wind' by Margaret Mitchell:

"I'll think of it all tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back.
After all, tomorrow is another day."

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'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle Tue Nov 14, 2006 7:04 am  'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle
 

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That was a nice example, Haihao. Smile
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'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle Tue Nov 14, 2006 15:40 pm  'The future will be better tomorrow.' © Dan Quayle
 

Hi

Thanks for the responses Smile

Amy, I’m not a fan of Dan Quayle, at all Smile

Just being - once again Smile - impressed by all recent future-discussion (and by your ‘tomorrow is Sunday’-point), I undertook a short googling for the phrases of the type Smile

If you remember, my point was that 'tomorrow is Sunday' is a standard use (in Russian too), but 'Tomorrow will be..' is sometimes necessary to express something special. 'More than' standard.

Well, let's leave Dan Quayle alone with his 'potato'-problem.

'Tomorrow comes today' Smile OK, but...

Some others:

'Tomorrow Will Be Too Long' (Amazon.co.uk) Smile
'Tomorrow Will Never Come'
'Tomorrow Will Come' Laughing
'Tomorrow Will Be Like Today.'
'Tomorrow will always be tomorrow.' (Hi, Haihao Smile )
etc

To me, 'will' makes sense.
Not?
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