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Do you ever wonder what you’ll do at a school for the English language and what your learning process will be like? Will everything go smoothly?
Well, you will definitely tackle future tenses, among other things. And, no, it may not be easy. You’ll need to invest time and effort to comprehend all the rules if you want to make yourself understood. Just imagine what confusion you’d cause if you talked about your plans using the wrong future form.
But nothing is impossible! With consistent practice and your teacher’s assistance, you’ll get a handle on future tenses too. In this blog post, we will introduce you to future forms and their different uses. Read on!
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There are various ways to express the future in English. Which construction you’ll use, depends on the message you want to convey.
Let's look at the following examples:
In addition to these three forms, four future tenses in English are also used to communicate numerous future meanings. Let’s see what they are.
The Future Simple Tense is formed with will/won’t + bare infinitive (infinitive without to):
I will call you later./ I won’t tell mom anything, don’t worry.
The list of its uses is pretty long, so let’s look at some of them:
We make this tense with will/won’t + be + present participle:
This time next week, I will be sunbathing at the beach. I can’t wait!
The Future Continuous Tense is usually used for:
We form the Future Perfect Tense with will/won’t + have + past participle to talk about an action that will be completed before a specific time in the future. We can usually use it with the following time expressions: by the time, in two years’ time, next week, etc.
Next May, my parents will have been married for 30 years.
The formula for this tense is will/won’t + have been + present participle. It shows that something will continue up until a particular event/moment in the future, highlighting how long the activity will have lasted.
By the time you come to visit me tomorrow evening, I will have been typing for 3 hours.
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