Grammar: Futures

Grammar: Futures

1. Future continuous

   • Express situation that will be happening at a certain time in the future
   • Subject+will+verb to be in infinite+ main verb ending in -ing
   • She will be travelling

2. Future perfect

   • Expresses situations that will have occurred at a certain time in the future
   • Subject+will+have+ main verb in participle
   • She will have travelled

3. Future tenses

   • Will
     • Promises, predictions an spontaneous decisions
       • I will carry this bag for you/We eon’t let our fans down/Will you be at the party
   • Present simple
     • Events in timetables
       • The news start in ten minutes /the train leaves at 12.20
   • Present continuous
     • Fixed future plans
       • We’re moving to Scotland/She isn’t coming to my party tonight
   • Be going to
     • Predictions (based on external evidence)
       • There’s going to be a scandal!/look at the sky,it’s going to rain the weekend
     • Intentions
       • I’m going to call him now/We’re going to see our aunt at the weekend