Going off of what your therapist has told you, the doses of your medications <will get> vs <are goint to get> greater

[Tony_M]

The sentence is mine.

- Going off of what your therapist has told you, the doses of your medications are going to get higher.
or
- Going off of what your therapist has told you, the doses of your medications will get higher.

According to Cambridge Dictionary, we use "be going to" to predict something that we think is certain to happen or which we have evidence for now. The therapist has told Person 1 something about the doses of their medications, Person 2 (who says the sentence) knows it. Can that piece of information be considered as the sort of evidence that would require "be going to"? Which option is better in that sentence?

 

[5jj]

BE going to is rarely 'required'. the way a speaker chooses to express futurity depends of a number of factors, not necessarily consciously considered by them. Both WILL and BE going to are possible in your sentence with little practical difference in meaning.

 

[Tony_M]

BE going to is rarely 'required'. the way a speaker chooses to express futurity depends of a number of factors, not necessarily consciously considered by them. Both WILL and BE going to are possible in your sentence with little practical difference in meaning.

What's the difference?

 

[emsr2d2]

What's the difference?

What do you understand 5jj's "with little difference in meaning" to mean?

 

[Tony_M]

What do you understand 5jj's "with little difference in meaning" to mean?

I don't understand.

 

[jutfrank]

The similarity is that they're both predictive and the difference is whether there's present evidence, as the dictionary says.

 

[Tony_M]

The similarity is that they're both predictive and the difference is whether there's present evidence, as the dictionary says.

That's what my question was about.