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3. I’ll make the bed for you.

4. Will you please open the window?

5. Wait for me near the bus stand. I’ll come to pick you.

In all the above sentences, ‘will’ is used. ‘Shall’ is not commonly used in modern English.
However, shall I and shall we are used in questions to make offers or suggestions.
Read the following examples:

1. Shall I get you some tea? (offer)

2. Shall we plan a trip next month? (suggestion)

G Uses of Going To .

It is used —
· to predict a future action when there is a clear evidence of its coming true.

Read the following example:
She is not paying attention to her studies. She’s going to have a problem in

her coming exams.
We often get confused between the use of ‘will’ and ‘going to’. Will is used if a decision

is made at the time of speaking. Going to is used if an intention or decision exists
beforehand.
Read the following examples:

1. We’re going to shift to another house. (The decision has already been made.)

2. We’ll change our house. (The decision is made at the time of speaking.)

G Use of Present Continuous Tense with a Future Meaning.

· It is used to express a future action if the speaker knows that something is going
to happen because an arrangement has already been made.

Read the following examples:

1. She is getting a prize next month.

In the above sentence, an arrangement for getting a prize is already done.
2. She is going to get a prize next month.

In the above sentence, only a decision is made but there may not be
any arrangement already made.

The two forms can be used interchangeably because there is a very slight
difference between the two forms.

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