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Originally Posted by BobK  "I'm going to play football". This isn't really the 'going to' future of 'play'. He's saying 'I'm going' and he's adding his reason for going.
A way to avoid having to think about the 'going' verb at all wd be to say
"I'm off to play football."
("I'm/he's/they're [etc] off" is a pretty common and useful idiom.)
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In AmE, there probably wouldn't be any confusion between the '
be going to' future and the present continuous of '
go' whatsoever seeing as the '
going to' future would be pronounced as '
gonna' whereas the present continuous of
go would not.
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