| Former-Teacher | Date: Monday, 20.12.2010, 17:56 | Message # 1 |
 Dean
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| Russian learners often misuse these two phrases because of the main component 'Future'. It is stored in our mind in its basic meaning 'some time from now'. But the phrases have two different meanings:
1) 'in the future' means 'some time later, next, week/month/year', e.g.:
We will discuss it in the future!
2) 'in future' means 'again' and is used in negative sentences, e.g.:
Please, never do it in future! - Please, never do it again!
Gramatically, you can use both phrases in the last example but the meanings will be different. Only the context can show what you really mean.
So, in the sentence below there is a contextual mistake. The author wanted to say 'some time later' but failed to express the meaning:
I don't think that my lifestyle will change in future
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