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Help the mastermind finalize his heist plans. Select ALL the grammatically correct sentences that use present tenses to refer to the future.
The correct answers are: The getaway helicopter takes off at exactly midnight, so synchronize your watches. We will bypass the laser grid while the main guard is doing his rounds. I am meeting our buyer in Paris tomorrow morning to hand over the diamond.
Explanation:
- Present Simple for Schedules: "Takes off" is correct because the flight is treated as a fixed timetable.
- Present Continuous in Time Clauses: "Is doing" correctly emphasizes an ongoing future action after the time conjunction "while."
- Present Continuous for Arrangements: "Am meeting" correctly describes a fixed personal arrangement in the future.
Why the others are incorrect:
- You cannot use "will" in a future time clause starting with "as soon as." It should be "as soon as the security system deactivates."
- We do not use the present continuous for predictions based on present evidence. It should be "it is going to detonate!"