[Grammar] to be doing/be going to/will be doing to

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Marcel7355

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Can you tell me the difference:

1.I'm leaving for Paris next week.
2.I'm going to leave for Paris next week.
3.I'll be leaving for Paris next week.
 

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There's no difference.

2 is less common than the others.
 

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2 would probably just be said as "I'm going to Paris next week". I realise that that omits any use of the words "leave/leaving" but it's the most natural.

I'm going to Paris next week. I leave on Tuesday.
 

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So can I use any of these variants?
 

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After reading the two answers above, what conclusion have you come to?
 

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I don't know. For me they have very similar meaning. 1 and 3 are the same. First is the plan and agreements, that is fixed and it's 95% that the event must to be done. The second is that you planed before, but you're not sure it will certainly happen (similar to "be supposed to"). But I don't know about third.
 

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There's no difference.

2 is less common than the others.

I don't know. For me they have very similar meaning. 1 and 3 are the same. First is the plan and agreements, that is fixed and it's 95% that the event must to be done. The second is that you planed before, but you're not sure it will certainly happen (similar to "be supposed to"). But I don't know about third.

Please reread the quote from Rover_KE above.
 

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I got it. But I try to discribe the explanations which are given in local grammatical books and which we had been teached in school.
 
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