"She'll be home now."

[teleostomi]

"She'll be home now."

Does this sentence sound OK? I found this type of definition of "will" in my dictionary...only near the bottom of the whole definition. I wondered then, it might suggest that this usage is rarely heard in actual conversations. Am I right?

[danmahaffey]

"She'll be home now."

Does this sentence sound OK? I found this type of definition of "will" in my dictionary...only near the bottom of the whole definition. I wondered then, it might suggest that this usage is rarely heard in actual conversations. Am I right?This use of will indicates expectation. Watch this: people will use will this way to indicate that they expect a condition with high certainty. :) She'll be home now, means that the speaker expects his mom (?) to be at home or to have arrived home now with near certainty. We use will this way often.

[teleostomi]

Thanks for your comment, dan!
This type of "will" is quite natural in Spanish and German, so I thought the English version of it was influenced by them.:D Turned out to be wrong.