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• I am about to -- or I am going to -- die: either expression is correct.
  ~~ Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, d. 1702...
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• To Willie's widow, Lily, and her new husband, Teixeira de Mattos, Wilde said, "I am dying beyond my means.
  I will never outlive the century. The English people would not stand for it....
• So this is it," said Arthur, "we are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except.
  ..no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision....
• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that.
  But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business....
• I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
  --Dominique Bouhours, grammarian, 1628-1702...
• I am about to---or I am going to---die; either expression is used.
  -- Last words of Dominique Bouhours, French grammaria...
• I am the check writer in the cash only line.
• I am not, nor have ever been, a lawyer.