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Hello dear colleagues, I am marking tests and I was wondering... - I think Kate Winslet � ll win an Oscar. - In 2030 people �ll fly to school. Can I use the contracted form of Will in these examples? It doesn �t sound good to me, it �s difficult to pronounce... Thanks for your help, Chiara |
16 May 2016
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maretha trie
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as I know that kind of will ( �ll) is only for subject pronoun. It should be in front of sentences. example : She �ll buy a new bike. He �ll go to Europa for holiday. etc. That �s all my opinion. Thanks. |
16 May 2016
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Gi2gi
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people �ll, Winslet �ll really sounds weird, as Maretha said, the contracted forms usually appear with personal pronouns and more rarely in phrases like who �ll, there �ll ... Using the contraction with nouns is definitely weird.�
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16 May 2016
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customer
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Yes, definitely. Thanks a lot to both of you! |
16 May 2016
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yanogator
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To add a little to what the others have said, although the �ll is used in speech with just about any noun or pronoun, it really isn �t used in writing except with personal pronouns. As Giorgi says, it is used more rarely with words like "who" and "there", and really should only be used then (in writing) when indicating what someone is saying. Bruce |
16 May 2016
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