"Your application will now be assessed"?
I read the title sentence from an email.
I am not quite sure about its precise meaning however.
"Your application will now be assessed" seems containing a future tense, but followed by 'now', not a future time.

Question

"Your application will now be assessed"?
I read the title sentence from an email. 
I am not quite sure about its precise meaning however.
"Your application will now be assessed" seems containing a future tense, but followed by 'now', not a future time.

Answer

"will now" seems like future tense, but it is an expression meaning "is now"

"Your application will now be assessed" - "Your application is now being assessed"

These basically have the same meaning

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"Your application will be assessed [by someone eventually]." The "now" is inserted for emphasizing the present status of your application, that it is in a stack right now waiting to be evaluated.

The meaning of "now" is normally "at this very moment": "I'm leaving now." But we can expand the meaning of "now" to just be the present time.

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