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The English language employs different structures to express future events depending on the speaker's intention, the degree of certainty, and the evidence available at the time of speaking. Regarding these future forms, mark the CORRECT alternative.

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D) The "present continuous" is used to describe personal arrangements or fixed plans for the future, usually implying that some preparation has already been made and a specific time has been set.

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A) The modal verb "will" is the preferred form to express future intentions based on clear evidence in the present, such as dark clouds in the sky being used to predict immediate rain.

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B) Future continuous (will be + -ing) is primarily used to describe a permanent state that will exist throughout the future, replacing the simple future in formal academic predictions.

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C) The structure "be going to" should be used to express spontaneous decisions made at the exact moment of speaking, especially in response to a request or an unexpected event.

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E) The use of "will" in conditional sentences of the first type (first conditional) occurs in the subordinate clause started by "if", to indicate that the condition is a future certainty.

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