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Future Time Reference

Future time is expressed by verbs in present tense.

Use of will and shall

Will and shall used with other verbs indicate Future time. Will and shall is present tense, the past tense of which are would and should.

Example:

  • Peter will take his dog for a walk tomorrow.
  • It will snow today.
  • I shall be fifty next Sunday.
  • This time tomorrow, I shall be attending classes in my college

Use of present continuous

We use the present continuous to talk of future time when the decision about the future action has already been taken in the present.

Example:

  • Peter is taking his dog to the vet tonight.
  • We are leaving for Paris next week.
  • Bush is going to win the elections.

Use of future perfect and future continuous

If an event is sure to happen in the future we can use future perfect and future continuous.

Example:

  • Father would have left by the time I reach home.
  • India will have become a prosperous country by the end of this century.
  • Scientists will not have found a means of walking in air even in another hundred years.
  • Boys will be doing all the cooking fifty years from now.
  • The ice caps will be melting and increasing the ocean level.

 
 
     
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