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millmo
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Can someone please explain the difference: you will stay you will be staying |
10 Sep 2015
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ertugrultemur
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second sentence focuses on a specific time in the future. |
10 Sep 2015
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redcamarocruiser
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To me they sound interchangeable. If someone asks me, "Where will you be staying", "Where are you staying" or "Where will you stay when you go to Paris, I may answer with either of the constructions "I will stay with my long time friend" or "I will be staying in a hotel." |
10 Sep 2015
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yanogator
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Mary �s excellent examples show that the difference is insignificant. In general, the progressive forms show some emphasis on a process happening over time. They have a tendency to bring the hearer/reader a little into the event (in a very small way). Bruce |
10 Sep 2015
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Naoom
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it seems like the passive and active sentences.The first shows that you have the will to stay by your own unlike the second. |
11 Sep 2015
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