What's the difference?

[shane]

I've just asked what the specific difference is between these two sentences:

1.We'll be interviewing four more prospects for the posts this afternoon.
2.We'll interview four more prospects for the posts this afternoon.

Can anyone help?

 

[RonBee]

It's hard for me to see any difference between the two. The speaker's intentions are the same in both cases: he plans to interview four more prospects that afternoon.

 

[Tdol]

The first sounds like a previously agreed plan that will now happen in the natural course of events. ;-)

 

[shane]

Cheers guys. I tried to explain to this guy that they are essentially the same, but he wouldn't have it. He was trying to find differences that aren't there.

 

[Dianelys]

I've just asked what the specific difference is between these two sentences:

1.We'll be interviewing four more prospects for the posts this afternoon.
2.We'll interview four more prospects for the posts this afternoon.

Can anyone help?

I've just asked what the specific difference is between these two sentences:

Hi, Shane.

Imagine these sentences in a conversation:
1.A: What will you be doing this afternoon?
B: We’ll be interviewing four more prospects for the posts.

This construction expresses an arrangement & a complete action in the future. It is similar to the present continuous that could be used instead:

A: What are you doing this afternoon?
B: We’re interviewing four more prospects for the posts.


2.‘We’ll interview four more prospects’ ….. sounds like a spontaneous decision:

A: We haven’t finished interviewing the prospects for the posts. (What shall we do?)
B: We’ll interview four more this afternoon, (and we'll continue tomorrow).