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People who have learned English later in life through classes, before immigrating here, have told me about what they consider to be "rules" and find themselves surprised that I (and other native speakers) don't follow these rules or know what they are.

One that sticks out in my mind was a group of them all explaining to me the difference between "will" and "going to" when talking about something future event. It was wrong of me to say "It'll rain tomorrow, according to the paper", because I need to use "going to" if I'm making a prediction based on evidence or something. They all nodded their head at this, and those of us who grew up here speaking English thought that was nonsense.

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