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Originally Posted by Unregistered  it is important that the first letter be in the right place. |
That is not the future; it is the subjunctive mood, and that is a completely different thing. A simpler way to write this sentence would be: "The first letter must be in the right place."
Of course you can say "will be". Doris Day used it quite a lot in one of her songs:
When I was just a little girl,
I asked my mother, "What will I be?
"Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?"
Here's what she said to me:
"Que sera, sera,
"Whatever will be will be;
"The future's not ours to see.
"Que sera, sera."
However, "will" is a modal verb, and you can only have one modal verb in a verb phrase. That means you cannot say:
will can
will must
will could
will may
will might
will shall
will should
will would
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