Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
may/will be ready
English answer:
will be ready
English term
Italy
may/will be ready
First, you have to look for trusted websites to choose your next tourist destination and find out more about it. Now, based on your tastes, you are/will/may be ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food and have great fun.
| 4 +3 | will be ready |
Helena Chavarria
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| 5 | you are ready |
Issam Aissi
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| 4 -2 | May |
Leonard Ferdianto
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Responses
Spain
Striving for excellence
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, Catalan to English
will be ready
As the sentence starts with 'Now', I think 'you are ready' is the best option. If the sentence started with 'Then', I would write ''you will be ready'.
'You may be ready' means the same as 'you might be ready'; i.e. you will possibly be ready.
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I've just realised that I wrote 'you will be ready' in the answer box. I meant to write 'Now, ...you are ready' or 'Then, ...you will be ready'.
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Option 1.
Now, based on your tastes, you are ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food and have great fun.
Option 2.
Then, based on your tastes, you will (you'll) be ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food and have great fun.
I'm sorry I didn't make it clear. When we're giving instructions, we often start with 'First/First of all...', which is followed by 'then...'.
'First you have to look for websites and now you're ready to explore' sounds strange to my ears.
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'First of all, search for websites..., then you'll be ready to explore'.
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Hi, Rosario. I’ll try and explain my answer more clearly.
The second sentence: ‘Now, based on your tastes, you are/will/may be ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food and have great fun.’ starts with the word ‘Now’, so ‘you are ready’ is the best option.
However, if you change ‘Now’ and start the sentence with ‘Then’, (which I think sounds better), the best option is ‘you will be ready’. The result would be ‘Then, based on your tastes, you will (you’ll) be ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food and have great fun.
Do you understand now?
If you don’t change that to ‘Then’, ‘you
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Sorry about the incomplete sentence at the end of my answer but I’m writing on my mobile.
| Helena, sorry but I still don't understand which one between ' are ready ' and ' will be ready ' is the best choice as it seems that you have chosen ' are ready '. |
| That's very strange because from all of your preferences, the results show that the best choice is ' will be ready ' (see 4+3 will be ready). Therefore, I still don't understand why you are still talking about ' are ready '. Is ' will be ready or ' are ready ' the best choice ? Would you please make it as clear as possible? |
| Thanks a lot all of you ! |
| Yes, I understand now. Thanks a lot Helena. |
| agree |
Paul Ryan
: I agree to the narrow choice of modal but the thing as a whole is extremely uniodiomatic
9 mins
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Yes, but that's a different matter. Thank you, Paul :-)
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| agree |
Tony M
: Yes, 'may' would be out of place here, and 'are' somewhat changes the tone, but could be used.
1 hr
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Thank you, Tony :-)
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Yvonne Gallagher
: Then you'll be ready, (after doing your research); now you're OK, no to "may"
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Thank you, Yvonne :-)
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Morocco
Translation/Transcription/Data entry
Native in: Arabic , English 
, French
Works in: Arabic, English to Arabic, French to Arabic, and 13 more.
you are ready
| neutral |
Tony M
: Although 'are' is certainly possible, it wouldn't be my first choice here (given the other shortcomings of the text as it stands). It would fit if it were within a narrative where the change of tense is used for stylistic effect.
1 hr
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| neutral |
Yvonne Gallagher
: Agree with Tony
14 hrs
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Indonesia
Japanese-English-Bahasa Indonesia
Native in: Indonesian (Variant: Standard-Indonesia)
Works in: Indonesian to English, English to Indonesian, Japanese to English, and 14 more.
May
"First, you have to look for trusted websites to choose your next tourist destination and find out more about it. Now, based on your tastes, you may be ready to explore a nice city, enjoy good food, and have great fun."
The use of "may" implies that based on the individual's tastes and preferences, there is a possibility or likelihood that they are ready to explore a city, enjoy good food, and have fun. It leaves room for flexibility and acknowledges that the decision ultimately depends on the person's preferences and choices.
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Tony M
: The use of 'may' here would express a degree of doubt, which is clearly at odds with the otherwise affirmative nature of the surrounding text.
47 mins
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| disagree |
Yvonne Gallagher
: 'May' would be wrong here, implying research won't be of much use
13 hrs
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Discussion
'Start off by searching for...'.
And as regards the use of adjectives, when I was at primary school many moons ago, our teacher told us that we could only use 'nice' to describe food.