What's the difference between these two, or which one is correct?
- I don't care if it rains.
- I don't care if it will rain.I should've thought about how I say in Korean because we don't use the future tense here as well.

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What's the difference between these two, or which one is correct?
- I don't care if it rains.
- I don't care if it will rain.I should've thought about how I say in Korean because we don't use the future tense here as well.

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In my opinion, you can use those sentences interchangeably especially in informal / spoken English.  The rule though is that you use the simple present tense of the verb for future tense if it has a given schedule (ex. movie, bus schedule, concert, etc.).  For example, "The movie starts at 8pm tomorrow night."

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I don't care if it rains. = correct

I don't care if it'll rain. = WRONG

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Thanks to both :) Well...this reminds me when I was told that English grammar isn't intuitive so it's such a pain in the ass for a non-native English speaker.

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yeah..in informal English people don't really follow the rules.  but Eliot is right, IF IT RAINS... IF here should be followed by present tense... :)

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they're both fine. i use both haha
the first one is completely correct, the second one is wrong but we still say it anywys :P

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