"he will be here" and "he will be there" exact difference?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Ok I made a small research and I don’t think I found the answer to my question so I hope no one raised this before :slight_smile:

“here” and “there” as in I/He will be here/there, is it mutually exclusive or not?
for example, if I talk about a friend coming to the city I am in right now but at a time where I won’t be there can I say that “he will be there” because it is distant in time and, me, the speaker, will be away at the time.

Or is it that, since I am in that city at the moment of the sentence, I am supposed to say “he will be here” instead of there?

Or is it that I can use both, here being an emphasis on the specific place and there being more general but potentially meaning also here?

I hope it is not too confusing but I have been trying to find the answer to this on the internet and I haven’t found any satisfactory answer yet…

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Simply say, " I won’t be here myself, but he will be."

That should solve it for you.

Goodnight all.

Kitos.

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thanks but finding another way to express it was not a problem :wink:

I just wonder about the correct use of “here” and “there”; the exemple is just the way the question came to my mind. so nobody got an idea ?

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Hello, Curu,

You would still say ‘He will be here’ because you’re referring to the location you’re currently at. Your location in the future isn’t important.

You would only use ‘He will be there’ if you’re referring to a different city other than the one you’re in at the time you speak.

Yes, exactly.

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oki thanks!! I guess I thought things in a more complicated way than they are .