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Future Continuous Tense Explained

The Future Continuous tense is used to talk about actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future. It is formed using the auxiliary verb "will" plus "be" plus the present participle form of the main verb. Some examples of the Future Continuous tense include "I will be working at 10am" and "You will be lying on the beach tomorrow." The Future Continuous tense expresses an action that will have started before a particular moment in the future but will not have finished at that moment.

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Future Continuous Tense Explained

The Future Continuous tense is used to talk about actions that will be in progress at a specific time in the future. It is formed using the auxiliary verb "will" plus "be" plus the present participle form of the main verb. Some examples of the Future Continuous tense include "I will be working at 10am" and "You will be lying on the beach tomorrow." The Future Continuous tense expresses an action that will have started before a particular moment in the future but will not have finished at that moment.

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Future Continuous

The Future Continuous tense is often used in English as a way to talk about
something happening at a given point in the future.

How do we make the Future Continuous tense?


The structure of the Future Continuous tense is:

subjec + auxiliary + auxiliary + main verb


t verb WILL verb BE

invariable invariable present participle

will be base + ing

For negative sentences in the Future Continuous tense, we


insert not between will and be. For question sentences, we exchange
the subject and will. Look at these example sentences with the Future
Continuous tense:

auxiliary auxiliary
  subject verb   verb main verb  

+ I will   be working at 10am.

+ You will   be lying on a beach tomorrow.

- She will not be using the car.


auxiliary auxiliary
  subject verb   verb main verb  

- We will not be having dinner at home.

? Will you   be playing football?

? Will they   be watching TV?

We sometimes use shall instead of will, especially for I and we.

Contraction with Future Continuous


When we use the Future Continuous tense in speaking, we often contract the
subject and WILL:

I will I'll

you will you'll

he will he'll
she will she'll
it will it'll

we will we'll
they they'll
will

In negative sentences, we may contract with won't, like this:

I will not I won't

you will not you won't

he will not he won't


she will not she won't
it will not it won't

we will not we won't

they will they won't


not

How do we use the Future Continuous tense?


The Future Continuous tense expresses action at a particular moment in the
future. The action will have started before that moment but it will not have
finished at that moment. For example, tomorrow I will start work at 2pm and
stop work at 6pm:
At 4pm tomorrow, I will be working.

past present future

  4pm

    At 4pm, I will be in the middle of


working.

When we use the Future Continuous tense, our listener usually knows or
understands what time we are talking about. Look at these examples:

 I will be playing tennis at 10am tomorrow.


 They won't be watching TV at 9pm tonight.
 What will you be doing at 10pm tonight?
 What will you be doing when I arrive?
 She will not be sleeping when you telephone her.
 We'll be having dinner when the film starts.
 Take your umbrella. It will be raining when you return.
Note that continuous tenses are also called progressive tenses. So the
Future Continuous tense is sometimes called the Future Progressive tense.

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