FROM GRAMMAR TO WRITING PART 1 Editing Advice 1. For the future with will, don’t add be before the main verb. I hope I will be find a good job. 2. Use a verb with will.
be
I will happy when I find a job. ^ 3. Don’t combine will and be going to.
is
Technology will going to improve. or Technology 4. Don’t use be going to with offers.
will improve.
I’ll
Those books look heavy. I’m going to help you carry them. 5. Don’t use the future in a time or if clause. When you will graduate from the nursing program, you will find a job. 6. Use a comma after a time clause or if clause at the beginning of a sentence. If I become a nurse, I will help a lot of people. ^ 7. Use a form of be with going to.
is
He going to write an essay about our future world. ^ 8. Use to after going for the future.
to
Are computers going be smarter than humans? ^ 9. Use the correct word order for questions.
aren’t you
Why you aren’t going to read the article?
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