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FUTURE TENSES OF VERB

FOUR TYPES OF FUTURE TENSE

1. Future Simple I will live in Barcelona.
2. Future Continuous I will be living in Barcelona.
3. Future Perfect I will have lived in Barcelona.
4. Future Perfect Continuous I will have been living in Barcelona.

Definition Form/Structure Uses and Examples

 Spontaneous Decisions
I’m hungry, I think I’m going to make
Modal
a sandwich.
use to talk about “will/would”
 Predictions
a time later than +
I’m sure you will pass the test.
now or haven’t bare infinitive
 Promises
happened yet
FUTURE SIMPLE I won’t tell anyone your secret.
and can be used can use
 Request
and expressed in contractions and
Will you tell Mia I came over?
lots of different “not” for
 Threats
ways negative
If you do that again, I will tell mom.
sentences
 Future Facts
I’m going to be back later.

 An Action in Progress at a Specific

Time in the Future
This time tomorrow, I will be flying to
Budapest.
use to talk about
 An Action we see as New but
things in progress
Temporary
at a particular will/going to
I am going to be working for my Dad
time in the future +
FUTURE until I find a new job.
be
CONTINUOUS  Predictions or Guesses
also called +
He will be coming to the party, I
“Future ing form
guess.
Progressive
 Predictions about the Present
Tense”
She will be working out right now, I
can imagine.
 Polite Inquiries
Will you be joining us for dinner?

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 An Action that will be Completed

before a Specific Time in the Future
At eight o’clock, I will have left
already.
use for actions will/going to
 Use ‘by’ or ‘by the time’ to mean
that will be +
Some Time Before
completed have
FUTURE PERFECT I will have finished this report by the
before some +
time you are home.
other point in the past participle of
 Use “in, in a day’s time, in two weeks’
future a verb
time, in three months’ time, etc.” to
mean at the end of this Period
In three years’ time, I will have
completed my degree.

use to show that

something will
continue up until
 In October, I will have been working
a particular event will/won’t
here for ten years.
in the future +
FUTURE PERFECT  When I arrive, I will have been
have been
CONTINUOUS working all day so I will be tired.
use to emphasize +
 By the time we arrive, we will have
how long verb -ing
been travelling for three hours.
something will
have been
happening for

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