going toとは

意味・読み方・使い方

成句

(be) going to

1. Forms a virtual or quasi-future tense.

   I’m going to throw out the milk if nobody’s going to drink it.

   • 1872, Mark Twain], "The Story of Grandfather's Old Ram" in Roughing It, Chapter 53

     Sh–! Don’t speak–he’s going to commence.

2. Comprises a past progressive tense that entails an inchoate future aspect.

   I was going to cut the grass, but it started raining.

使用する際の注意点

• (Be) going to comprises the present participle form of go, and may entail a to-infinitive. In the context of such a phrase, going to commonly is deemed a phrasal modal or phrasal auxiliary verb.
• A future aspect formed with "going to" (または "gonna") differs from that formed with "will". It usually indicates something already planned, an intention, or something that is bound to happen.
• It is sometimes used without the main verb (in the infinitive) if the verb is easily inferable from its elliptical context:

"Did you cut the grass?" "No, I was going to (cut the grass), but it started raining."

• In casual circumstances, "going to" -

1. often is replaced by "gonna" when "to" constitutes a particle within a to-infinitive phrase; e.g. "I'm gonna fly to New York." (This might be pronounced "I'm goin' to fly to New York.")
2. never is replaced by "gonna" when "to" constitutes a preposition; e.g. "I'm gonna to New York" is ungrammatical. (However, "I'm going to New York" might be pronounced "I'm goin' to New York.")

参考

• to (particle)

アナグラム

• GOTOing, togoing