the reply to "Will your parents be pround of you if you work hard?"
The reference answer to this question( Will your parents be pround of you if you work hard?) is "Yes, they are." But I thought it was "Yes, they will." I never thought it through. Now I'm confused for It could be an established expression. Which is the regular one?

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"Yes they will "would be the correct response, grammatically. However, if the person wanted to say "Yes, they are in fact already proud of me" then you could possibly say "yes they are".But it is not strictly speaking a correct response to "Will they...?" to which we need to answer "Yes they will".

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I think yes they will sounds more formal.

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