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word will
definition
verb
You use will to indicate that you hope, think, or have evidence that something is going to happen or be the case in the future.
The Prime Minister is now 64 years old and in all probability this will be the last election that he is likely to contest.
You will find a wide variety of choices available in school cafeterias.
Representatives from across the horse industry will attend the meeting.
70 per cent of airports will have to be upgraded.
Will you ever feel at home here?
The ship will not be ready for a month.
You use will in order to make statements about official arrangements in the future.
The show will be open to the public at 2pm; admission will be 50p.
When will I be released, sir?
You use will in order to make promises and threats about what is going to happen or be the case in the future.
I'll call you tonight.
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If she refuses to follow rules about car safety, she won't be allowed to use the car.
You use will to indicate someone's intention to do something.
I will say no more on these matters, important though they are.
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'Dinner's ready.'—'Thanks, Carrie, but we'll have a drink first.'
He will be devoting more time to writing, broadcasting and lecturing.
What will you do next?
Where will you stay when you get to San Francisco?
Will you be remaining in the city?
You use will in questions in order to make polite invitations or offers .
Will you stay for supper?
Will you join me for a drink?
Won't you sit down?
You use will in questions in order to ask or tell someone to do something.
Will you drive me home?
Will you listen again, Andrew?
Wipe the jam off my mouth, will you?
You can use will in statements to give an order to someone.
You will do as I request, if you please.
You will now maintain radio silence.
You will not make jokes about him. He has been very good to me.
You will not discuss this matter with anyone.
You use will to say that someone is willing to do something. You use will not or won't to indicate that someone refuses to do something.
All right, I'll forgive you.
I'll answer the phone.
If you won't let me pay for a taxi, then at least allow me to lend you something.
He has insisted that his organisation will not negotiate with the government.
You use will to say that a person or thing is able to do something in the future.
How the country will defend itself in the future has become increasingly important.
How will I recognize you?
You use will to indicate that an action usually happens in the particular way mentioned .
The thicker the material, the less susceptible the garment will be to wet conditions.
There's no snake that will habitually attack human beings unless threatened.
Art thieves will often hide an important work for years after it has been stolen.
You use will in the main clause of some 'if' and 'unless' sentences to indicate something that you consider to be fairly likely to happen.
If you overcook the pancakes they will be difficult to roll.
If a nuclear war breaks out, every living thing will be wiped off the face of the Earth.
He won't stop drinking unless he's told by a doctor that it's killing him.
You use will to say that someone insists on behaving or doing something in a particular way and you cannot change them. You emphasize will when you use it in this way.
He will leave his socks lying all over the place and it drives me mad.
You use will have with a past participle when you are saying that you are fairly certain that something will be true by a particular time in the future.
As many as ten million children will have been infected by the end of the decade.
He will have left by January the fifteenth.
You use will have with a past participle to indicate that you are fairly sure that something is the case.
If someone has been in captivity, he will have changed as a result of his experience.
The holiday will have done him the world of good.
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