Hello, Is this sentence grammatical: I'm going to the garden and plant a flower. Here is my understanding: 1. "be(am) going to" here is present tense of "go", therefor "plant" should be "planting": I'm going to the garden and planting a flower.--"going" and "planting" are the coordinative structure. 2. "be(am) going to" means future tense, similar as "will", therefor the sentence should be"I'm going to go to the garden and plant a flower."--"go" and "plant" are the coordinative structure. But I really don't know if I'm correct about this at all. Thanks.
You have a choice: I'm going to the garden to plant a flower. Says that you are going there now and why you are going there. I'm going to go to the garden and plant a flower. Says that you will go there and what you will do when you get there. I'm going to go to the garden to plant a flower.Says that you will go and why you are going there.
Thank you, Andy. I see your point and I understand that they mean different things. But my quesiton is whether the original sentence is grammatical: "I'm going to the garden and plant a flower." I worked on it a bit. But I'm not sure if "I'm going to the garden and planting a flower." is grammatical either.
Sorry, I thought you would understand that as I did not include it, it was ungrammatical. I'm going to the garden and planting a flower is grammatically fine, although it suggest that you are doing them simultaneously, which is logically incoherent.
Thank you very much, Andy. May I have one more question: Could this also be correct: Says that you will go there and why you will go there?
It could be future in the right context. I prepare to get up from my chair - I'm going to the garden ... I'm going to do it in the immediate future With a time modifier Tomorrow I'm going to the garden ... /I'm going to the garden tomorrow ...
