won't be doing vs won't do

[Ashraful Haque]

Sometimes I teach my brother at home due to the lockdown. He started online accounting class so I said:

"I won't be teaching you accounting from today since you started online class."
"I won't teach you accounting from today since you started online class."

What's the difference between 'won't be teaching' and 'won't teach?'

 

[emsr2d2]

Sometimes I teach my brother accountancy at home due to the lockdown. He started taking an online accountancy class so I said:

1. "I won't be teaching you accountancy from today since you have started an/the/your online class."
2. "I won't teach you accountancy from today since you have started an/the/your online class."

What's the difference between 'won't be teaching' and 'won't teach?'

They're both OK. Most native speakers would probably go with sentence 1. It's rather formal for something we might say to our brother. What you'd actually hear is "Oh! You've started an online accountancy course. Great! I don't have to teach you anymore!"

 

[jutfrank]

Neither sentence seems right.

What are you actually trying to do with this sentence? What do you want to tell him that he doesn't already know?

 

[Ashraful Haque]

Neither sentence seems right.

What are you actually trying to do with this sentence? What do you want to tell him that he doesn't already know?

Since I was talking to my brother I didn't need to speak in English. I just speak English with him sometimes to practice.

But my question was actually about 'won't be doing' vs 'won't do.'

 

[Ashraful Haque]

They're both OK. Most native speakers would probably go with sentence 1. It's rather formal for something we might say to our brother. What you'd actually hear is "Oh! You've started an online accountancy course. Great! I don't have to teach you anymore!"

Thank you but can I know why 'accountancy' and not 'accounting' since I'm talking about the subject? Over here we always say 'accounting' for example- "I have an accounting class next," "He's is our new accounting teacher," "Accounting is easy."

But my question was actually about the difference between 'Won't be doing' vs 'Won't do.'

 

[emsr2d2]

Fine. For me, "I won't be teaching you accounting from now on ..." and "I won't teach you accounting from now on ..." work. I'd use either "from now on" or "after today". The latter suggests you will teach him today but not tomorrow or any day after that. "From now on" means "starting right now".

 

[Ashraful Haque]

Fine. For me, "I won't be teaching you accounting from now on ..." and "I won't teach you accounting from now on ..." work. I'd use either "from now on" or "after today". The latter suggests you will teach him today but not tomorrow or any day after that. "From now on" means "starting right now".

So there's no difference between 'I won't be teaching' and 'I won't teach?'
Is there any difference between 'I won't' and 'I won't be ing' in other contexts?