i would like to reply to your letter, which arrived two days ago, before leaving for Rome i was told yesterday that the company are going to send me there
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Just focussing on the part of the sentence mentioned in the title (there are other problems with it):
In British usage, this is perfectly fine.
In American usage, people who believe there is such a thing as "correct" usually object to this and say it should be is going to.
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the choices are: 1. shall have sent 2. are going to send 3. shall be sending 4. shall send – shaghayegh Jun 26 '15 at 09:57
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I know of no variety of English in which the company shall ... is grammatical, except in the sense of putting a requirement on the company. With will instead of shall these are grammatical; but I cannot think of a context in which your choice 1 would make sense. – Colin Fine Jun 27 '15 at 00:18