Timeline for "Let's see who wins" vs. "let's see who will win"?
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| May 28, 2012 at 17:18 | comment | added | Peter Shor | +1: I think the salient grammatical point (which you're the closest to stating explicitly) is that the tense in dependent clauses in English is determined relative to the main clause. Thus, the fact that you can't see into the future means that the dependent clause needs to be in the present. If you were fixing a race, you could say "Let's decide who will win." | |
| May 28, 2012 at 11:35 | history | edited | CompanyDroneFromSector7G | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 28, 2012 at 11:28 | history | answered | CompanyDroneFromSector7G | CC BY-SA 3.0 |