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"was gonna" is a perfectly acceptable English phrase
You can use it when you want to say that someone was intending to do something, but it didn't happen. For example, "I was gonna call you last night, but something came up."
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was gonna
contraction
When followed by an infinitive verb.
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This was gonna be fun.
I was gonna break that contract.
"I thought I was gonna die out there and no one was gonna know or care.
And now a change was gonna come.
It was gonna be taken out.
All that stuff was gonna be gone.
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Whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen.
Nothing is gonna change.
Nothing is gonna happen.
I'm gonna die.
It's gonna happen.
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