{"id":3759,"date":"2016-08-09T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:43:03","slug":"will-vs-going-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/will-vs-going-to\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will&#8221; vs. &#8220;Going To&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Will&#8221; and &#8220;going to&#8221; are both used in some pretty similar ways. Both are used to talk about the future. You can say &#8220;I will cook dinner tonight,&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m going to cook dinner tonight.&#8221; The meaning of these two statements is almost exactly the same. But there are some subtle differences. And in other cases, <em>will<\/em> and <em>going to<\/em> can be used in very different ways.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2016\/08\/03161715\/3721809183_4f64706cdb_o.jpg\" alt=\"will vs going to\" width=\"388\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3783\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">Buck<\/div>\n<h2><em>Will<\/em> vs.\u00a0<em>Going to<\/em>: Times when it&#8217;s better to use &#8220;will&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><em>Will<\/em> is a much better word choice than\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> in a number of situations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long term predictions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are making a prediction about something far in the future,\u00a0<em>will<\/em> is the more common wording in English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:\u00a0<\/strong>The world\u00a0<em>will<\/em> end 100 years from now. There\u00a0<em>will<\/em> be another presidential election in four years.<strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong>In this example, if you use\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> instead, the statement will sound wrong &#8212; or at least awkward &#8212; to most native English speakers. &#8220;The world <em>is going to<\/em> end 100 years from now&#8221; just doesn&#8217;t sound right. Similarly, it&#8217;s better to say &#8220;There\u00a0<em>will\u00a0<\/em> be another presidential election\u00a0in four years,&#8221; compared to &#8220;There\u00a0<em>is<\/em><em> going to be\u00a0<\/em> another presidential election in four years.&#8221;\u00a0<em>Going to<\/em> simply doesn&#8217;t have a sense of &#8220;distant future&#8221; in the same way that <em>will<\/em> does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Requests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Requests absolutely have to use\u00a0<em>will<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Going to<\/em> is completely incorrect in this case.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Example:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Will<\/em> you help me with my homework?\u00a0<em>Will<\/em> you join us for dinner?<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Going to\u00a0<\/em>help me with my homework?&#8221; and &#8220;<em>Going<\/em><em> to\u00a0<\/em>join us for dinner?&#8221; are so ungrammatical that a native speaker would have trouble understanding these. You could say &#8220;<em>Are you going to<\/em> help me with my homework?&#8221; or &#8220;<em>Are you\u00a0<\/em><em>going to<\/em> join us for dinner?&#8221; But these sentences don&#8217;t sound like requests. They sound like yes\/no questions about future action. And if you try to frame such questions as requests, you&#8217;ll seem very rude and demanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Offers of help<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are offering to help,\u00a0<em>will<\/em> makes for a better, easier-to-understand statement than\u00a0<em>going to<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:<\/strong> Someone&#8217;s knocking on the door; I\u00a0<em>will<\/em> let them in. I\u00a0<em>will<\/em> help you cook dinner.<strong>Notes:<\/strong> If you say &#8220;I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> let them\u00a0in,&#8221;\u00a0your statement sounds stiff and a little unnatural. Your tone can also seem rude. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to let them in&#8221; can make it sound like letting someone in is a difficult task you resent doing. It can also sound as if you won&#8217;t allow anyone else to let the person in. In the same way, &#8220;I\u00a0<em>am going<\/em><em> to\u00a0<\/em> help you cook dinner&#8221; sounds like you&#8217;re demanding the right to help someone cook,\u00a0or complaining that you have to help cook.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Complicated verb tenses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In complicated verb tenses <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/talking-about-the-future-part-2-the-perfect-and-continuous-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for talking about the future<\/a>,\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> makes the grammar simply too complex &#8212; too many words and syllables.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:\u00a0<\/strong>I <em>will<\/em> have been studying for 60 days by the end of the month. They <em>will<\/em> be sleeping in a hotel tonight. She\u00a0<em>will<\/em> have finished her college degree by next spring. For the examples above, try substituting\u00a0<em>will<\/em> for\u00a0<em>am going to<\/em> or\u00a0<em>are going to<\/em>. You&#8217;ll find that <em>going to<\/em>\u00a0makes the sentences\u00a0<em>much<\/em>\u00a0<em>harder\u00a0<\/em>to say.\u00a0Harder to understand too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Times when\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> is better than\u00a0<em>will<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>There are also some situations where it&#8217;s better to say\u00a0<em>going<\/em><em> to<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>will<\/em> doesn&#8217;t work so well. There are really only two times when\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> is the more common construction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short\u00a0term predictions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are making a prediction about something\u00a0very near in the future &#8212; in a matter of minutes, hours, days, or sometimes weeks &#8212;\u00a0<em>going to<\/em>\u00a0is more common than <em>will<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> rain soon.\u00a0The boss isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> like this.<strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong>In the first example, you can also say &#8220;It\u00a0<em>will<\/em> rain soon,&#8221; but this changes the meaning\u00a0of the sentence. &#8220;It\u00a0<em>will<\/em> rain soon&#8221; sounds more like an absolute certainty than a prediction. In the second example, if you say &#8220;The boss\u00a0<em>will not<\/em> like this,&#8221; the tone is again slightly more forceful. This second sentence is an interesting example though. Because upsetting the boss is a serious, forceful situation,\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> and\u00a0<em>will<\/em> are almost exactly the same here. But with normal, non-forceful predicitons,\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> is always a better fit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you discuss plans,\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> is the more appropriate construction.\u00a0<em>Will<\/em> doesn&#8217;t work quite as well for talking about future plans in English.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Examples:<\/strong>\u00a0I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>going to<\/em>\u00a0get a haircut on Friday. She told me she is\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> apply to Harvard.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<strong>Notes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Here, <em>will<\/em> changes the meaning and sounds &#8220;off&#8221; in both examples.\u00a0In the first example, &#8220;I\u00a0<em>will<\/em> get a haircut on Friday&#8221; has a rude tone. It&#8217;s the kind of thing you would say angrily to someone who is bothering you about getting a haircut. And in the second case, if you say &#8220;She told\u00a0me she\u00a0<em>will<\/em> apply to Harvard,&#8221; there is a hint of disbelief. By saying\u00a0<em>will<\/em> instead of going to, you suggest that her talk of applying to Harvard is a prediction that might not come true, rather than a plan that she&#8217;ll actively carry out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A note on<em> going to<\/em> as a future tense form vs. &#8220;going to&#8221; as a phrasal verb<\/h2>\n<p>One of the confusing things about <em>going to<\/em> is that it isn&#8217;t always used as a\u00a0<em>will<\/em>-like future tense form. Sometimes &#8220;going to&#8221; is actually a phrasal verb. This can be confusing because you can actually create some very similar sentences using future form\u00a0<em>going to<\/em> and phrasal verb &#8220;going to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Example\u00a01:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Future form:<\/span> \u00a0He is\u00a0going to<em>\u00a0<\/em>fight in a war (predicting that he will fight in a war soon.)<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\nPhrasal verb:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0He is going to war (he is physically relocating to a war zone so he can fight).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Example 2:<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Future form:<\/span> \u00a0I am going to watch a movie this weekend (future plan to watch a movie).<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><br \/>\nPhrasal verb:<\/span>\u00a0 I am going to the movie theater this weekend (physically travelling to the movie theater in the near future, presumably to watch a movie).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Will&#8221; and &#8220;going to&#8221; are both used in some pretty similar ways. 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Additionally, he's helped students with TOEIC, PET, FCE, BULATS, Eiken, SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT.\r\n\r\nDavid has a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. His work at Magoosh has been cited in<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C50&amp;q=Recine+magoosh&amp;btnG=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> many scholarly articles<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/minds.wisconsin.edu\/handle\/1793\/65479\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> his Master's Thesis<\/a> is featured on the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingwithpictures.org\/2013\/09\/research-highlight-teaching-english-language-learners-with-comics\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Reading with Pictures<\/a> website, and he's presented at the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.witesol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-WITESOL-Program-FINAL-10-28-14.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> WITESOL (link to PDF)<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/interoff\/docs\/nafsaregionv_2014conference\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> NAFSA<\/a> conferences. David has taught K-12 ESL in South Korea as well as undergraduate English and MBA-level business English at American universities. He has also trained English teachers in America, Italy, and Peru.\r\n\r\nCome join David and the Magoosh team on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCra3KQoJlOP7RYwaCyH2qew\"> Youtube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MagooshEnglishLearning\"> Facebook<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/magooshenglish\/?hl=en\"> Instagram<\/a>, or connect with him via<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-recine\/\"> LinkedIn<\/a>!"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}