Future Simple & Continuous

Will: Form

Positive: Subject + WILL + V1**

Negative: Subject  +  WILL  + NOT + V1**  (won’t)          

** The verb is always in the base form.

Will: Use

1. Voluntary action: Are you cold? I will turn off the air conditioning?

2. Promise: I will wash the dishes after I eat. I promise

3. Future Prediction: I think he will come tonight.  (Be going to can also be used to make a prediction.)

Be Going To: Form

I + AM GOING TO + V1  (am not)

He/She/It + IS GOING TO + V1    (is not = isn’t)

They/We/You + ARE GOING TO + V1  (are not = aren’t)

Be Going To: Use

1. Future Plan: We are going to watch a movie tonight.

2. Future Prediction: My daughter is going to get good grades in school. (Both will and be going to can be used for future predictions.)

The simple future tense is used when an action is promised/thought to occur in the future.

SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE is a grammar used to talk about activities that will occur / begin and end in the future. So that when someone expresses it means that the activity has not occurred, but it will definitely happen. Apart from being certain, the simple future tense also expresses facts.

Affirmative (Positive) Statement

>> Subject + Will + Verb

>> Subject + Shall + Verb

Negative Statement

>> Subject + Will not/Won’t + Verb

>> Subject + Shall not + Verb

Interrogative (Question)

>> Will + Subject + Verb + ?

>> Shall + Subject + Verb + ?

Future Continuous: Form

Both will and be going to have the same meaning when used in the continuous form.

Will: Form 

Positive: Subject + WILL + BE + (V1 + ING)

Negative: Subject + WILL + NOT + BE +  (V1 + ING)  (won’t)                 

Be Going To: Form

I + AM GOING TO + (V1 +ING)   (am not)

He/She/It + IS GOING TO + (V1 +ING)   (is not = isn’t) 

They/We/You + ARE GOING TO + (V1+ING) (are not = aren’t)

Future Continuous Use

1. To show a future action in progress during another shorter future action or a specific time.

2. To describe multiple actions happening at the same time in the future.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS / FUTURE PROGRESSIVE TENSE is a grammar used to express an activity that will occur / take place / progress at a certain time in the future.

The future continuous is not always a plan or what someone will do in the future. However, we can use it to say what is likely or expected to happen at that time.

Adverbs of time that are commonly used in the future continuous tense are when, while, this time next week, at noon, next year, etc.

The future perfect tense is used to demonstrate an action which is promised to be done by a certain time in the future.

Structure:

Subject + shall/will + have + verb in the past participle

Example:

I shall have completed the assignment by Monday.

She will have cleaned the house before her father comes.

Alex will have submitted the tender by tomorrow.

Affirmative (positive)

>> Subject + Will be + Verb (ing)

Negative

>>Subject + Will not be/Won’t be + Verb (ing)

Interrogative (question)

>>Will + Subject + Be + Verb (ing) + ?