THE TENSES USED FOR FUTURE.

WILL-FUTURE
1. Use
  1. To talk about events that will occur with certainty in the future, with or without the intervention of the subject in the action.
  2. To express predictions, deductions of the speaker about a future event.
  3. When you want to express orders, requests and promises.
  4. We use the future simple with will in the first conditional and in sentences that have a conditional feeling.
2. Form
  1. Will + infinitive
3. Examples
  1. Affirmative
    1. • She'll sing on the weekend. • I'll give you the récipe.
  2. Negative
    1. • She won't be doing her homework on the weekend. • He won't be home until 9:00 pm.
  3. Interrogative
    1. • Will they have dinner at night? • Will she go for a run early?
GOING TO-FUTURE
1. Use
  1. To express plans, decisions or intention to do something in the near future.
  2. This construction is used in the informal sphere.
  3. • When you are certain that something is going to happen.
2. Form
  1. Be (am/ are/ is) + going to + infinitive
3. Examples
  1. Affirmative
    1. • I'm going to clean the house tomorrow. • She's going to cook for her mother.
  2. Negative
    1. • I'm not going to study English the other semester. • He's not going to buy a car in the afternoon.
  3. Interrogative
    1. • Is she going to dance at the graduation party? • Am I going to call my father tomorrow?
FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE
1. use
  1. Action to be completed in the future. When we use this tense, we are projecting ourselves into the future, that is, an action completed at some point after the present.
  2. It is used with temporary expressions.
2. Form
  1. Will + have + past participle*
  2. *(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs
3. Examples
  1. Affirmative
    1. • She'll have lived in Quito. • He'll have written his book.
  2. Negative
    1. • She won't have forgotten car keys • We won't have won the basketball championship.
  3. Interrogative
    1. • Will she have made new shoes? • Will he have found the cell phone?
FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
1. Use
  1. It is used for an action in progress that will be completed at some specific time in the future.
  2. Is used with two time expressions: one that specifies a time in the future and one that indicates the duration of the activity
2. Form
  1. Will + have + been + infinitive + ing
3. Examples
  1. Affirmative
    1. • I’ll have been selling bracelet. • She’ll have been spelling her alphabet.
  2. Negative
    1. • We won’t have been working long when you arrive. • He won´t have been working.
  3. Interrogative
    1. • Will I have been working since noon? • Will she have been wearing her hair down?
FUTURE PROGRESSIVE
1. Use
  1. An action will be in progress at a certain time in the future. This action has begun before the certain time.
  2. Something happens because it normally happens.
2. Form
  1. Will+ be + infinitive + ing
3. Examples
  1. Affirmative
    1. • I will be learning English. • They will be selling sportswear.
  2. Negative
    1. • We won´t be taking the bus to go home. • She won´t be eating at a hotel.
  3. Interrogative
    1. • Will she be taking her medicine? • Will he be playing his guitar?

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