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Please explain me about this Future Tense?



 
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Please explain me about this Future Tense? #1 (permalink) Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:55 am   Please explain me about this Future Tense?
 

Hi!

This is with regard to the "Future Tense" on a story Jealousy. I don't understand what this Tense due to actually means.

A sentence from the story:
She's due to become a councillor next month after the elections and she'll probably make a good job of it.

Does it mean She's going to be a councillor next month or does it has different meaning?
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Please explain me about this Future Tense? #2 (permalink) Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:18 am   Please explain me about this Future Tense?
 

She is about to become a councillor... the plan is that she will take this position next month, everything is in place for this to happen.
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Please explain me about this Future Tense? #3 (permalink) Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:31 am   Please explain me about this Future Tense?
 

Hi Surjamankhatiwora,

Hope you enjoyed my story. What I meant here:

Quote:
She's due to become a councillor next month after the elections and she'll probably make a good job of it.


was that it has already been arranged for her to be a councillor - in other words she has been elected to do the job.

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