am|is|are + going + to-INFINITIVE (future) – English Grammar Profiler

The phrase “be going to” is often used in English to talk about future plans and intentions. It’s formed with the verb “be” in the appropriate tense and person, followed by “going to” and the base form of the main verb. Here’s a breakdown:

  1. Affirmative form: “It is going to take time.”
    • Here, “is going to” is used with the subject “It”. The main verb is “take”. This sentence expresses a future prediction or plan.
  2. Question form: “Are you going to do anything about it?”
    • In questions, the verb “be” and the subject are switched. So, “you are going to” becomes “Are you going to”. The main verb here is “do”. This question asks about someone else’s future plans or intentions.
  3. Affirmative form: “This is a group of people who want to tell you your work is going to live.”
    • In this complex sentence, “is going to” is used with the subject “your work”. The main verb is “live”. This sentence expresses a future prediction.
  4. Informal affirmative form: “I need a video clip, and you’re gonna give it to me.”
    • Here, “gonna” is an informal contraction of “going to”, often used in spoken English. The subject is “you”, and the main verb is “give”. This sentence expresses a future intention or expectation.

Here are examples of ‘BE going to’ with A1 infinitives that are linked to video:

It is going to take time.

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Are you going to do anything about it?

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This is a group of people who want to tell you your work is going to live.

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I need a video clip, and you‘re gonna give it to me.

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‘Snow’ is A2 in the English Vocabulary Profile:

The weather forecast said it‘s going to snow tonight.

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In the English Grammar Profile, in the category of FUTURE:

B1 Point 31 is defined:

‘be going to’:  increasing range of verbs to make predictions.

A2 point 4 is defined:

future the affirmative and question forms of ‘be going to’ talk about plans and intentions.

*Point 4 overlaps A2 interrogative clauses and A2 verb patterns.

* Note that there is no other entry for this structure with lexical verbs in the EGP.  There are other points for a combination with adverbs though.  So whether or not they are used for predictions doesn’t matter when it comes to the form pointing to B1 only.

An iWeb search for:

_VB going to VVI

*we have manually removed was|were

1 ARE GOING TO GET 23377 2 ‘RE GOING TO GET 22241 3 IS GOING TO HAPPEN 18812 4 IS GOING TO GET 18138 5 IS GOING TO TAKE 16988 6 IS GOING TO MAKE 16695 7 ‘S GOING TO HAPPEN 15884 8 ARE GOING TO USE 15328

9 ‘RE GOING TO NEED 14712

10 ‘M GOING TO TRY 13717

PELIC STUDENT:

I‘m going to try another steak.

Korean female level 3 writing class.

*intention

11 ‘S GOING TO TAKE 13462 12 ARE GOING TO NEED 13017

13 ARE GOING TO MAKE 12692

15 AM GOING TO TRY 11410

17 ‘RE GOING TO SEE 11181 18 ‘M GOING TO GO 10296 19 IS GOING TO GO 10078 20 IS GOING TO COME 10029 21 ARE GOING TO GO 9159 22 ARE GOING TO SEE 9145 23 ARE GOING TO TAKE 9145 24 ‘S GOING TO GET 8544 25 ‘RE GOING TO MAKE 8406 26 ‘M GOING TO GET 8252

27 IS GOING TO HELP 8245

29 ‘RE GOING TO GO 8086
30 ARE GOING TO WANT 8038

32 ‘RE GOING TO USE 7703
33 ‘RE GOING TO WANT 7695

36 IS GOING TO CHANGE 7505 37 ARE GOING TO LOVE 7241 38 ‘RE GOING TO TAKE 7133 39 IS GOING TO LOOK 6836 40 IS GOING TO GIVE 6778 41 ‘M GOING TO GIVE 6457

42 ‘M GOING TO MAKE 6386

44 ARE GOING TO LOOK 6089 45 ‘M GOING TO TAKE 5974

46 ‘S GOING TO MAKE 5869

48 IS GOING TO COST 5361 49 ARE GOING TO START 5283 50 ‘M GOING TO USE 5215 51 ARE GOING TO FIND 5177 52 ARE GOING TO COME 5098 53 ‘RE GOING TO FIND 4882

54 ARE GOING TO TRY 4829

56 AM GOING TO MAKE 4600

59 AM GOING TO USE 4540 60 ‘RE GOING TO LOOK 4485

61 IS GOING TO NEED 4451

63 ARE GOING TO GIVE 4360 64 ‘M GOING TO START 4277 65 ‘M GOING TO SHOW 4273 66 AM GOING TO GET 4218 67 ‘RE GOING TO TRY 4097 68 ‘S GOING TO GO 4089 69 IS GOING TO BECOME 4063 70 ‘RE GOING TO LOVE 3977

71 AM GOING TO GO 3972

73 ‘M GOING TO SAY 3827 74 ‘S GOING TO COME 3803 75 ‘RE GOING TO START 3783

76 IS GOING TO END 3782

78 AM GOING TO GIVE 3746 79 ‘RE GOING TO TALK 3557 80 ‘M GOING TO KEEP 3521

81 ARE GOING TO CONTINUE 3433

82 AM GOING TO SHOW 3391

84 IS GOING TO CONTINUE 3359 85 ARE GOING TO PUT 3276 86 AM GOING TO TAKE 3244 87 ARE GOING TO TALK 3233 88 ARE GOING TO CHANGE 3231 89 ARE GOING TO SAY 3226

90 IS GOING TO START 3225

92 IS GOING TO PLAY 3130 93 ARE GOING TO PLAY 3100 94 ‘M GOING TO PUT 3086 95 IS GOING TO WIN 3074

96 ARE GOING TO KEEP 3072

98 ‘M GOING TO TELL 3041 99 ‘RE GOING TO PUT 3037

100 ‘RE GOING TO GIVE 3033

A2: become, cost, going to, happen, keep, try, win B1:

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BE _P going to _VVI

1 ARE YOU GOING TO GET 2341 2 AM I GOING TO GET 1614 3 ARE WE GOING TO GET 1469 4 ARE YOU GOING TO USE 1318 5 ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE 1303 6 ARE WE GOING TO SEE 1006 7 IS IT GOING TO TAKE 825 8 ARE YOU GOING TO GO 822 9 ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE 764 10 ARE YOU GOING TO PUT 687 11 ARE YOU GOING TO TELL 685 12 ARE YOU GOING TO FIND 571 13 ARE YOU GOING TO TRY 560 14 ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP 544 15 ARE THEY GOING TO GET 527 16 ARE YOU GOING TO SAY 524 17 ARE YOU GOING TO GIVE 512 18 IS IT GOING TO COST 441 19 ARE YOU GOING TO LET 410 20 ARE YOU GOING TO PAY 376 21 ARE YOU GOING TO START 369 22 ARE WE GOING TO MAKE 342 23 ARE YOU GOING TO BUY 322 24 AM I GOING TO MAKE 315 25 ARE YOU GOING TO STOP 282 26 ARE WE GOING TO GO 281 27 ARE YOU GOING TO SEE 273 28 ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE 265 29 ARE YOU GOING TO SPEND 261 30 AM I GOING TO GO 252 31 ARE YOU GOING TO SELL 248 32 ARE YOU GOING TO PLAY 245 33 ARE THEY GOING TO MAKE 229 34 ARE YOU GOING TO ADD 222 35 ARE YOU GOING TO RUN 221 36 ARE YOU GOING TO STAY 214 37 AM I GOING TO SAY 211 38 ARE YOU GOING TO COME 207

39 ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE 205

40 ARE WE GOING TO FIND 202 41 IS HE GOING TO GET 202 42 ARE YOU GOING TO CHANGE 200 43 ‘S IT GOING TO TAKE 199 44 ARE YOU GOING TO NEED 199 45 AM I GOING TO FIND 197 46 ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE 196 47 ARE YOU GOING TO KNOW 195 48 ARE THEY GOING TO GO 193 49 ARE YOU GOING TO EAT 193 50 ARE YOU GOING TO CALL 193 51 ARE YOU GOING TO BUILD 191 52 AM I GOING TO TELL 190 53 AM I GOING TO PAY 190 54 IS IT GOING TO MAKE 187 55 ARE YOU GOING TO HELP 184 56 ARE YOU GOING TO WEAR 184 57 AM I GOING TO DIE 179 58 ARE WE GOING TO START 173 59 AM I GOING TO USE 167 60 AM I GOING TO NEED 166 61 ARE YOU GOING TO ASK 166 62 IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN 163 63 ARE WE GOING TO USE 159 64 IS IT GOING TO GET 158 65 ARE YOU GOING TO LOOK 155 66 ARE YOU GOING TO LEAVE 154 67 ARE YOU GOING TO HANDLE 147 68 ARE YOU GOING TO LEARN 141 69 ARE WE GOING TO LET 140 70 ARE THEY GOING TO SAY 136 71 ARE WE GOING TO PAY 136 72 ARE WE GOING TO STOP 136 73 WAS I GOING TO GET 136 74 ARE YOU GOING TO CHOOSE 134 75 AM I GOING TO WEAR 134 76 ARE THEY GOING TO FIND 132 77 ARE YOU GOING TO WATCH 129 78 AM I GOING TO PUT 127 79 ARE YOU GOING TO LIVE 127 80 ARE WE GOING TO PUT 126 81 ARE YOU GOING TO BRING 116 82 ARE YOU GOING TO FIX 111 83 ARE YOU GOING TO FEEL 110 84 ARE WE GOING TO SAY 109 85 ARE YOU GOING TO MISS 109 86 ARE YOU GOING TO KILL 104 87 ARE YOU GOING TO PICK 103 88 ARE YOU GOING TO DEAL 102 89 ARE THEY GOING TO USE 102 90 ARE WE GOING TO TALK 101 91 ARE WE GOING TO TAKE 98 92 ARE YOU GOING TO TALK 97 93 IS IT GOING TO GO 97 94 ARE THEY GOING TO PUT 96 95 ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW 96 96 ARE YOU GOING TO CELEBRATE 94 97 ARE WE GOING TO EAT 93 98 ARE YOU GOING TO MANAGE 93 99 ARE YOU GOING TO TURN 91

100 ARE WE GOING TO KEEP 90

Final note.  A visitor using search typed:

E.g.going to

Which returned no results.  E.g. means they were looking for examples.  But it is not clear if they are looking for examples of ‘going to’ or examples of similar structures to ‘going to’.  Anyway, it is better to just type ‘going to’ into the search box, because that will give you many pages that all have many examples.  There are not many pages that use the term ‘E.g.’   

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