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Developing Country Developed Attract Foreign Investors Talking Happen

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Keyword will
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence If a developing country will become a developed country, it has to attract foreign investors.
Correct Sentence If a developing country is to become a developed country, it has to attract foreign investors.
Cloze Error Sentence If a developing country [[will]] become a developed country, it has to attract foreign investors.
Cloze Sentence If a developing country [[is to]] become a developed country, it has to attract foreign investors.
Cloze Answer is to
Choices is to | will
Explanation

When you are talking about what must happen in order to make something possible, use if ... am/is/are to do sth (NOT will ): 'If we are to get there by six o'clock, we'll have to get a taxi.'

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