Timeline for I am taking the bus tomorrow vs I am going to take
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 15:25 | comment | added | psmears | Fair enough. It would be worth tweaking your answer to say, for example, "Native speakers (of US English)", and "nobody ever says (in US English)". There are exam boards that address different varieties of English. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 9:30 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | I (UK) elide going to to a certain extent, but I rarely if ever omit the 't' sound. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 1:04 | comment | added | John Lawler | I can speak authoritatively only about US pronunciation, and then only on certain topics. Plus there are plenty of individual differences; but this is for an examining board, who are sposta know this already. | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 22:00 | comment | added | psmears | "nobody ever says going to" - this is just wrong. Certainly in the UK, even if "gonna" is probably more common, "going to" is perfectly normal and acceptable (in a way that pronouncing the have of "have to" [in the sense of "must"] as anything other than "haff" would not be normal or acceptable). | |
| Sep 19, 2021 at 21:22 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |