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Old 02-Apr-2008, 10:14
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Default Re: Want to know about Future Tense

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I am businessman, sometime I stick on a tense. Like today I am stuck; I was writing a mail to my client and I wanted to convey to him that I need a TDS certificate within a week and I was mentioning that: I would be requiring TDS certificate with in week's time. Can you tell me is it correct English?

It can be understood but it is not good English.

In this context a simple future is better:

I will require the TDS certificate next week
I require the TDS certificate by next week
The TDS certificate will be needed next week
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