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be going to vs. will #1 (permalink) Wed May 09, 2007 12:38 pm   be going to vs. will		  
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If you choose in your limited wisdom to mess arround with me then you both are going out of here in a bag


I heard this phrase in a movie. I'm not sure if it is grammatical to use the present continuous tense there. I was taught that in cases like that we should use the future simple, because it is a conditional type.

Could you tell me if that is acceptable or not?.

Thanks a lot
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be going to vs. will #2 (permalink) Wed May 09, 2007 19:35 pm   be going to vs. will		  
Hi lost_soul,

I assume you would like to say: then both of you will be going .. which of course is also acceptable. The force of then both of you are going is that it becomes more dramatic and threatening suggesting that there is no alternative/no other possibility.

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be going to vs. will #3 (permalink) Thu May 10, 2007 7:13 am   be going to vs. will		  
Hi, Alan

Thank you for your explanation, it came in handy :) !
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I assume you would like to say: then both of you will be going .. which of course is also acceptable


Actually, I wanted to say "then both of you will go ..."
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