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5.7 Modals to express intentions: BE GOING TO, WILL

BE GOING TO for intentions

Be going to is used to express future intentions that, at the moment of speaking, have already been decided:

We are going to redecorate the living room next week.
Are you going to propose to her?
Do you think Sam's going to apply for the job?

WILL

The modal will (the future simple tense) is used to express future intentions that are decided at the time of speaking (spontaneous offers, promises and decisions):

Come on, I'll help you with those bags. (offer)
I will always love you. (promise)
I'll have a wiener schnitzel. (decision)

In the first person, shall can be used instead of will to announce intentions. Shall is more formal than will:

I shall definitely give up smoking this year.