Will or will be?

Question

I am studying Oxford Practice Grammar Book. I have seen this sentence below. Can we use "will be" instead of "will" in this sentence?

The meeting will start at half past seven.

There's also a related question asked years ago on ELU (before ELL was created) - Correct usage of “will be” vs. “will” — FumbleFingers, Sep 23 '18 at 17:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 23 '18 at 17:38

In a word, yes, if you mean can you write the sentence as:

The meeting will be starting at half past seven

The sentence above implies that the meeting will be happening shortly, whereas the sentence you have posted could be used for a meeting tomorrow.

Hope this helps!

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