Zusammenfassung der Ressource
FUTURE FORMS
- Phrases with finite verbs are only
marked for the present and past.
- Using the future effectively is often a matter of
choosing the best form from those available.
- It is expressed in the manners of will.
- It is formed in the present tense, simple and continuous.
- Present tense is used when future
events are considered relatively
close.
- The will/shall future
- The future of the will is also
mastered "future simple" or "pure"
- It is used to announce official plans and arrangements.
- The be going to future
Anmerkungen:
- affirmative: I am / you are / he is etc. + going to+ bare infinitivenegative I am not / you are not / he is not etc. + going to+ bare infinitiveinterrogative: Are you not / Is he not + going to + bare infinitive ... ?
- Be going to is generally used in a less formal style
- Be going to is also used to make predictions of
events that are about to happen
- The present continuous as future
Anmerkungen:
- affirmative: I am / you are / he is etc. working next Saturday negative: I am not / you are not / he is not etc. working next Saturdayinterrogative: Are you / is he etc. working next Saturday?
- The present continuous is used to
express planned future arrangements
- The present continuous and the be going to futures
can be used to express virtually the same meaning
- Present simple as future
- It is used to talk about fixed plans, programmed events, people’s
schedules such as travel itineraries, organized trips and the like.
- The future continuous
- The construction will + be + -ing form is
used to talk about actions/processes
- The future perfect
- The future perfect is also used to make a prediction
about what we think has probably happened
- The future in the past
- In order to talk about an event which was in the future at a
certain time in the past we can use the past forms of the
various future structures