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Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   28 Aug 2015, 20:25
Hello all,
I am not a native English speaker. Please help me understand the difference between the usage of 'will' and 'is going to'.
Frank has gone to France last year seems fine to me along with Frank went to France last year

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   06 Sep 2015, 21:32
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Hello all,
I am not a native English speaker. Please help me understand the difference between the usage of 'will' and 'is going to'.
Frank has gone to France last year seems fine to me along with Frank went to France last year

Thanks in advance.


IMHO, I believe that you will understand the difference better through examples or specific context. Although you can search google a bit and loads of results will show up giving you all usages of "will" and "is going to", but probably you're not going to remember all of them, much less when to use them appropriately.

So I will give one example for each that I can think of.

"Will" When someone rings your doorbell and you decided to go answer the door. You say this announce the decision you have just made at that moment: I will get it.

"Is going to" when you intend to do something. Ex: Aren't you going to to call her or not?

Hope it helps.
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Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   29 Aug 2015, 01:15
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gone to France implies he recently went to France and is still there .
Went to on the other hand implies he went sometime in the past and is not there anymore


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Re: Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   29 Aug 2015, 01:50
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mkarthik1 wrote:
Hello all,
I am not a native English speaker. Please help me understand the difference between the usage of 'will' and 'is going to'.
Frank has gone to France last year seems fine to me along with Frank went to France last year

Thanks in advance.


I think you want to understand the difference between 'will go' and 'is going to'

'will' here is used for an action that will happen sometime in the future. The person might go tomorrow or an hour after.
'is going to; refers to an action that is happening currently. The person is going right now.

Does this clarify your doubt?
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Re: Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   30 Aug 2015, 09:13
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mkarthik1 wrote:
Frank has gone to France last year seems fine to me

This is not a correct sentence Karthik.

has gone is present perfect tense and such tenses are associated with unspecific time. So, a specific time last year cannot be used with present perfect.

Hence, we can either say:

Frank has gone to France (rather, more specifically, Frank has been to France)

Or

Frank went to France last year.
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Re: Will vs Is going to.. difference [#permalink] Will vs Is going to.. difference   05 Sep 2015, 20:58
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mkarthik1 wrote:
Please help me understand the difference between the usage of 'will' and 'is going to'.[/i]
I don't remember seeing a GMAT question that uses is going to, but if you're using is going to (infinitive), then you're talking about the future, perhaps in a less formal way than with a will.
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