Is this grammatically incorrect? Settle an argument please.

[Frozenteatowel]

“Next, I’m going to be using a powder to mattify the concealer.” Should it be, “Next, I’m going to use a powder...”. Or are they both acceptable? Thank you.

"Frozenteatowel

Thank you all so much. Really interesting."

Are you loving it? :o

Aaargh how I hate the continuous tense.

Stealth. I’m not sure if I’m loving it or going to be loving it 🤔.

Or going to have had been loving it maybe

There’s nothing wrong with the continuous tense. In the US it seems to be disapproved of mainly because of confusion with passive tense constructions. But ‘it is raining’ is something we say almost every day. And it was raining. I was drying my hair, etc.

Depends on the context. If this is some kind of presentation then it may well be "THE powder" rather than "A powder". I am going to use THE powder to mattify etc etc.

Of course it's OK where appropriate.

But in answer to "What did you do yesterday?" I would prefer to hear "I dried my hair" rather than "I was drying my hair"

As others have said, ‘going to be’ is the future continuous tense, which implies that at some point there will be an interruption to the action. Eg: ‘I’m going to be using powder to mattify when X/Y/Z happens

But in this case, there is no X/Y/Z event. So the correct tense would be the simple future tense: ‘next, I’m going to use...’

But really, as long as you understand what she’s saying, it doesn’t matter.

Well not really PeakTurmeric (great name BTW!) It depends whether your temporal focus is on the process without taking into account the start and end time boundaries or whether your focus is on the result, which implies seeing the application as a whole, completed event with an end boundary.

Well not really PeakTurmeric (great name BTW!) It depends whether your temporal focus is on the process without taking into account the start and end time boundaries or whether your focus is on the result, which implies seeing the application as a whole, completed event with an end boundary.

Well, yes, that’s true. I don’t know how you would determine which it is. Or whether you even need to. But it’s an interesting problem to kick around if you’re a massive language geek who doesn’t get out much these days. Which I am.

It could be either depending on what aspect of the application you're foregrounding, the process or the result. I'm endlessly fascinated by language too