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Sat 11 May, 2013 09:07 am
1) If anyone desires to put a special item on the meeting agenda, please let me know by the beginning of next week.
2) If anyone will desire to put a special item on the meeting agenda, please let me know by the beginning of next week.
@nhelen,
1) is better
2) implies that I should guess
whether I will have such desire, and if so, then let you know
@nhelen,
Quote:2) If anyone will desire to put a special item on the meeting agenda, please let me know by the beginning of next week.
Number 2 is odd, that match of 'will' and 'desire'. My guess is it's because 'will' denotes too strong a certainty. To express this idea we would use,
2) If anyone
wishes [will desire] to put a special item on the meeting agenda, please let me know by the beginning of next week.
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