[Mr. Bayoumy Ghreeb]

المشاركة الأصلية كتبت بواسطة mahrousahmed

In our mid-term exam January 2016, the examiner copied these two following sentences from an outside cook book. She \ He asked the students to choice the correct answer:

1) I ..........to a party tomorrow, would you like to come?
a) am going b)will go c) goes d) will have gone

the examiner's answer was 'am going'
I politely objected and debated that the answer should be "will go" as the sentence here doesn't have a plan or an intention or even arrangement as the speaker says,"....a party......" not ".........the party ........"
What's your opinions my dear colleagues?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

am going is the right answer merely because it's a decision taken before


As for a party / the party
a noun is definite when it's known to both the listener and the speaker
Ex : I bought a car / the car yesterday
Here : I know exactly which car I'm talking about but the noun is still indefinite

ملحوظة : بدلا من التفاصيل الكثيرة لاظهار الفارق بين will / going to
جرب الاتي

We use " will " for decisions taken now
Ali : My friend Adel is in hospital
Sami : I know , I'm going to visit him today
We use " going to" for decisions taken before

Ali : My friend Adel is in hospital
Sami : Oh! really , I'll visit him today

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