Hello,
My question is about the present continuous and the simple future:
She is leaving to London next month. (Not will leave)
She will leave to London next month.
The first sentence is the right one, but both of them express arrangement.
Well, would you please tell me the difference between them.
Thank you
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She is leaving for London next month.
She will leave for London next month.What makes you so sure that the second expresses arrangement? It could be suggesting certainty or willingness.
Referring to a form with 'will + bare infinitive' as the 'simple future' suggests that it is a tense; it is not. It is simply one of several Ways of Expressing the Future in English .
Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.
I just want to know why the use of ''will'' in that context is incorrect since they both can express arrangement.She is leaving to London next month. (Not will leave)
Thank you.
The use of 'will' is not incorrect - unless the speaker is wishing to make it clear that the leaving is the result of an arrangement. If the idea of the arrangement is uppermost in the speaker's mind, then they are more likely to say:
She is leaving
She is going to leave
She is to leave
She leaves
She has arranged to leave
She plans to leave
etc.
Context is always important; labelling is rarely important.