is likely to be ready on Monday or will likely be ready on Monday?

[kumar17]

Hello!

1)The car is likely to be ready on Monday.

2)The car will likely be ready on Monday.

Which one is correct?

I think "1)" is more natural because of presence of "likely".

(The context is the car is in workshop and getting fixed).

Thanks in Advance!

 

[GoesStation]

They're both correct. I prefer number one, too.

You omitted an article in the "context" sentence.

And welcome to the forum! :hi:

 

[kumar17]

You omitted an article in the "context" sentence.

And welcome to the forum! :hi:

I think it should be "the workshop".

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be here!

 

[GoesStation]

I think it should be "the workshop".

That's right. Well done.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I think it should be "the workshop".

Thanks for the welcome! Glad to be here!

Yes, the is important.

Where I live, a workshop is something else. We'd say "in the shop" or "at the garage."

Yes, welcome! Be ready to get lots of opinions here. We all live in different regions, so we all have different ways of saying things.

And we're all right all the time!

 

[PeterCW]

As a southern British English speaker only the first sounds natural if each word is enunciated individually. The second sounds natural only if spoken quickly so that "car" and "will" are elided. That seems odd but then English can be very odd at times.

In BrE we would be more likely to say "garage" rather than "workshop" unless we were being very specific about the location. I would understand "in the workshop" to mean that the garage was still working on the car as opposed to it being ready for collection.

 

[Tarheel]

Hello!

1)The car is likely to be ready on Monday.

2)The car will likely be ready on Monday.

Which one is correct?

I think "1)" is more natural because of the presence of "likely".

(The context is the car is in the workshop and getting fixed).

I favor the first one.

I would expect garage or auto repair shop.

 

[Tarheel]

It might be worth mentioning that in real life car repair guys are more sure of things. They will tell you, for example:

The car will be ready Monday.

 

[jutfrank]

only #1 is natural in BrE, at least for my elderly generation.

As a southern British English speaker only the first sounds natural if each word is enunciated individually.

Just as a point of interest—#2 sounds very natural to me. In fact, it sounds like something I very easily could say.

Having said that, I'd strongly advise learners to use #1.