- LuckyPrincess1024
September 2024
DAI RISPOSTE
![]() | AussieInBgOctober 2024 The sentence is perfectly fine! Sentence order is also totally correct - particularly for British English. It would probably, in most cases, be more correct to say ”I will be going shopping with my friends tomorrow”. The continuous aspect would be used more often when describing activities with friends and so on because what happens during that future time is an aspect that is important to communicate, not just the bland fact you are at a shopping centre at some point in time tomorrow. |
AussieInBgOctober 2024 Ummmm, no.
It depends on which question is being asked and the relevant importance of the timeframe verses the action performed.
For example, if you ask a question ”What will you do at (British) / on (American) the weekend”,. then, if the action of shopping is more important, then the questioner’s sentence form is perfectly correct.
If the time is the more important aspect of the communication, then ”tomorrow” goes at the beginning of the sentence. A comma is optional if it is British English (the presence or absence of the comma communicates other information - can you see why?).
Incidentally, your hypothetical ”English teacher” would be almost certainly a speaker of American English, only able to function using a formal register of American English and has learnt that rule by rote from a poorly formulated grammar book of American English. I’ve seen some real garbage out there with ”Grammar Book” written on the cover.
And yes, the writer of the aforementioned grammar text is almost certainly clueless about sentence order and meaning, and probably he/she only functions linguistically using a formal register. They have likely misunderstood that putting the timeframe at the start of a sentence is not a law with physical validity, but something which occurs in a majority of cases in formal writing because times in timetables/schedules are usually more important for people like managers than for what actually happens during that time.