Hi, I currently learn the Memrise English Courses and miss some explanations regarding the grammar. I hope, somebody can help me with this:
For instance, look at the phrases “I’ll be at home at four o’clock”, “we’re going to go to France in the summer” and “she’ll go to Germany next winter”.
It would be very helpful, if I could find an explanation, why you chose the present progressive in the one sentence and the future progressive in the other. Of course I can google that and I did: But even with the standard explanation for the future tenses I was not able to understand it for every phrase in the Memrise app. And on the other hand I think: I do have an English app for this and it should offer those explanations…
Maybe there is something in the grammarbot-mode. But I don’t find this mode in the app. And on the PC it’s always shown grayed.
I’m no expert on English grammar so can’t give you a “proper” explanation. However I’ll give my take on them on the sentences.
“I’ll be at home at four o’clock” - stating a fact that you will be there. It’s something done, not something you’re going to do.
“we’re going to France in the Summer” and “she’ll go to Germany next Winter”, is an intention, but may not actually happen, circumstances could prevent it.
However, one could still say “we’ll be in France in the Summer” or “she’ll be in Germany next Winter”, but generally most people would not express it that way.
Hope that helps. Maybe somebody more educated can give a better explanation!
Unfortunately I made not entirely clear, what is my point:
What I really miss is an explanation for several grammar aspects which can be found in the phrases of the app. I took the sentences as an example for that, but did not mean to miss explanation for explicitely this sentences. There are others with future or past tenses, gerund or infinitive etc etc.
I’m not sure if the grammarbot-mode can help here as I don’t find it in the app and on PC it’s only shown grayed.
So if there is no solution for my problem I like to encourage the memrise team to develope something for this aspects.
