Future with "will" or "present simple"

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi everyone! Please explain me why is the last sentence with WILL GET:
Pam: Can you see my future in the crystal ball? What (happen) will happen next year?
Fortune Teller: You (meet) will meet a man from the East Coast, perhaps New York or maybe Boston. You (marry) will marry that mystery man.
Pam: Forget the man! I want to know if I (get) will get a new job.

Thanks!

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Pam: Can you see my future in the crystal ball? What will happen next year?
Fortune Teller: You will meet a man from the East Coast, perhaps New York or maybe Boston. You will marry that mystery man.
Pam: Forget the man! I want to know if I get a new job.

You do not use future tense after if or when.

I do not have time to look for a reference now, but I might find it later.

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Hello Penuel,
I’d say the word “if” is used to mean “whether” in your sentence, and therefore it is not actually a conditional sentence:

  • I want to know whether I will get a new job.

In other words, the sentence means “I want to know this: Will I get a new job or not?”

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Hi Penuel,

The question is what you would use instead of ‘will get’ in that last sentence. It suggests ‘if I am going to get a new job’.

Alan

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Its a question, isn’t it? I think that it should be more appropriate like this:
[color=red]I want to know, will I get a new job or not?

Please correct me if I am wrong in this message.

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That is a different kind of question: look up “indirect question” and “direct question”.