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Will or going to - The rule of evidence?

tbentsen77

Denmark

I've learned that when predicting the future without having ant evidence indicating that the prediction will come true, we use 'will' in stead of 'going to'.

Let's use this sentence as an example: 'Johnny's sister is going to have a baby'.

Using the argument above, wouldn't the correct sentence be: 'Johnny's sister will have a baby'. ??

Here, we are predicting the future without anything in the sentence indicating any evidence for our prediction.

If, on the other hand, we included some evidence to the sentence, we should use 'going to' – f.x.: Johnny's sister looks bigger than usual. I think, she's going to have a baby.

Am I totally wrong here?

10:50 PM Jun 30 2010 |

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Teacher AmySuper Member!

United States

Hi! Typically, we can use either "will" or "be going to" to make predictions. But in both example sentences you gave, it's best to say "Johnny's sister is going to have a baby."

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06:45 PM Jul 01 2010 |