Learn English – Is it correct to use ‘will’ twice in this sentence

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I know there is no general rule of using 'will' twice in a sentence so I want to understand where I can use it

example:

I will appreciate it if you WILL send me my bag

question:

I can't grasp allowance and forbiddance of using 'will' twice but according to this video I concluded that sometimes it is possible

is it right using of 'will' (twice)

Best Answer

Yes, you can – but usually not as you put it. There's a pertinent explanation in Swan's Practical English Usage (260.1):

We use will with if to talk about what will happen because of possible future actions – to mean ‘if this will be the later result’. Compare:

We'll go home now if you get the car. (condition)
We'll go home now if it will make you feel better. (result)

So no one would say this:

I will appreciate it if you will send me my bag.

because you're essentially saying that you'd be happy to show gratitude if that will make them send you your bag, as though there'd previously been an argument between you and the other person who said:

I'm not sending you your bag if you don't thank me beforehand!

However, your sentence would never be interpreted as such – outside the bizarre context I made up above, and even then it would be rephrased into something like

I'll say "thanks" if that'll make you hand it over.

which is still weird but less weird than the original – but rather as a non-native English speaker's attempt to say what BillJ said in their comment (a closing quotation mark added):

"I would appreciate it if you would send me my bag" would be the usual polite phrasing. "I would" can be reduced to "I'd" in informal contexts.

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