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Understanding Future Simple Tense

The document discusses the future simple and future continuous tenses in English grammar. The future simple uses the modal will while the future continuous uses will be + verb+ing. Examples are provided of affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences in both tenses.

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Understanding Future Simple Tense

The document discusses the future simple and future continuous tenses in English grammar. The future simple uses the modal will while the future continuous uses will be + verb+ing. Examples are provided of affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences in both tenses.

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Future Simple

The Future Simple tense is often called the "will tense" because we make the Future Simple with
the modal auxiliary will.

The structure of the Future Simple tense is:

For negative sentences in the Future Simple tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and
main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these
example sentences with the Future Simple tense:

Contraction with Future Simple

When we use the Future Simple tense in speaking, we often contract the subject and auxiliary
verb:
In negative sentences, we contract with won't, like this:

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:

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:
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:

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