In Spanish, you use the future tense to express uncertainty or probability in the present. p.263

​The context of the statement shows us if you are expressing probability such as I wonder, it´s probably, it must be, and so on.

I wonder what time it is.

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​¿Qué hora será?

I wonder if it is 11:30?

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​¿Serán las 11:30?

I wonder who it is?

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​¿Quién será?

I wonder if it is my neighbor?

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​¿Será mi vecino?

I wonder who it is?

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​¿Quién será?

I wonder where my keys are?

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​¿Dónde estarán mis llaves?

I wonder if the keys are at home?

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​¿Las llaves estarán en casa?

Making future predictions

​In a way, talking about the future is making a prediction.

We really don´t know what will happen... even if we have plans.

This is the ¨feeling¨ of making predictions using the future tense.

Making future predictions

Él llegará a la fiesta a las 2 de la tarde.

Making future predictions

• What if he has car problems?

• We don´t know the future with 100% certainty.

• That is why we are making a "prediction".
  ¿Él llegará a las 2 de la tarde a la fiesta?
  
  

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