Learn English – Will I be missing

sentence-construction

There are 3 sessions in the conference.

Session 1 starts at 1

Session 2 starts at 2

Session 3 starts at 3

In this situation, I'd like to say like….

I think I'm going to be late and arrive at 2. Will I be missing (any sessions / any(a) session)

Here, which one is right?

I think (any/a session) is better, because any sessions is like talking about unknown and unspecified sessions, which is not right here cause we are talking about one definite session that you and I both know about.

Best Answer

If understand your implication correctly, so that you would only be missing the single session (session 1), then yes you would use the singular 'any session'. However since you have clarified that it is session 1 anyway (and eliminated the possibility of it being the other two sessions), it would be more suitable to just say 'Will I be missing [session one]?'.

If there is the possibility that it could be more than the one session (e.g. perhaps you might arrive at 2:15 and miss out on part of session 2 as well), then you would use the plural form: 'Will I be missing any sessions?'