Does the obligation/necessity come only from "have to" below, or is it also coming from "am going to"?
I'm going to have to do X if I am to achieve Y.
I'm going to have to do X if I am to achieve Y.
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Adding "oing to".
Does the obligation/necessity come only from "have to" below, or is it also coming from "am going to"?
I'm going to have to do X if I am to achieve Y.
I am about to going to have to ask you from where did you get such a sentence? it sounds strange to me. can we really say that in english?
Mike, are you a native speaker?
Here's a few million Google examples of that construction: 43,000,000 pages in English for "going to have to".
It seems to me that adding "am going to" creates a greater sense
of urgency.
<It seems to me that adding "am going to" creates a greater sense
of urgency. > But not obligation, right?
It think it adds a greater sense of obligation too. When someone says "I'm going to have to shoot you." vs. "I have to shoot you" both sentences tell me they feel the need to shoot me, but the first gives me a sense that they will be more likely to follow through with their actions, and do it sooner than later. Nothing is concrete though.
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