a sentence from the movie Legends of the Fall

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the guy(brad pitt) decided to leave the home, but the girl wanted to keep him, so she said," if i'm pregnant, will you still be going? "

could she say, will you still go? or are you still going? or are you still going to go? instead?

Asked by Little G on 07:41, 10/10/2008 - 124 views
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The style of her speech indicates that the movie is a "period piece" (set at a particular time in the past). It could also be because she is supposed to be an uneducated or "country person". Modern correct English would express the same idea as : "If I were pregnant, would you still leave?"

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