People thought Dali was mad, he knew he was far from it, but understood what being “mad” was. “Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.”. – Salvador Dali Quote. Dali was a complete technician through and through, make no doubt about it.
Today Dali’s sayings are almost as popular as his paintings. A Salvador Dali quote is a mix of whimsical insight and brutal truth. Let us un-package some of these Dali quotes. “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon, and my ambition has been growing ever since.”. – Salvador Dali Quote.
Although both sentences refer to an event in the future, the difference between “I will meet my friend tomorrow” and “I am meeting my friend tomorrow” concerns what went on in the past. English doesn’t really have a future tense. Instead, we rope in other tenses and modal verbs to do the job.
The first sentence uses the word “will” which, in the first person (“I will….”) implies determination…”I will meet my friends whether you like it or not”
The difference is rather subtle here. The first is the perfect tense (‘he has gone’) and implies that he is currently in a state of having gone to meet his friend. So it implies that he is still there with his friend or perhaps has not f0und him yet but is still on his way there. The second implies that he went away with the intention of meeting his friend, but leaves it open as to whether he in fact succeeded in finding his friend and whether he’s still there.
Agreement/ Concord in speech and in writing refers to the proper grammatical match between words and phrases.
The Present Continuous/Progressive tense is used in cases which aren’t quite as rigid as the former examples but where nevertheless some action has been taken in the past that commits the speaker to the action in the future; e.g., “I’m working all Wednesday,” or “I ’m seeing my lawyer tomorrow afternoon.” In both these cases, there is a strong implication that someone (probably you) did/said something that would oblige you to perform the action. So if you say “I am meeting my friend tomorrow,” the listener will infer that you made some explicit arrangement with your friend to meet tomorrow. People often use this grammar to give the impression that it would be hard to get out of doing the action.
The Simple Present tense is normally used for events which are fixed by some external source; e.g., “Classes start tomorrow” or “The film starts at 9.30.” There are rare cases of its being used for a performative (i.e., a statement that becomes true by saying it) such as “We ride at dawn.”
The first sentence is correct, but allowing for a possible errant keystroke, the second sentence might also be correct. The context of the sentences is also of importance though.