This document discusses ways to talk about future time in English grammar. It covers using will + infinitive to make predictions and statements of fact about the future. It also discusses using going to for intentions, the present continuous for arrangements, and the present simple for scheduled events. Examples are provided for each. Time clauses are also discussed, noting that simple future cannot be used in time clauses and present tense must be used instead.

1. Grammar class - IV
Future Time
Bruno Otilio

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Past Perfect and progressive review…

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Future time
NOW Future
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sub+ will + Infinitive form without To
I + will + do grocery

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Time Clauses
When
Before
After
As soon as
Until
While
Sub + verb
Examples:
• When you will arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Not Correct
• When you arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Correct
Simple future cannot be
used in time clauses.
Instead of
Simple future, Simple
present is used.

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Using Shall
Examples:
• Shall I help you? suggestion
• I shall never forget where I came from. promise
• I'm afraid Mr. Smith shall become our new director. inevitability
Shall is used with the subjects “I” and “We”
www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplefuture.html

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So far we have learned…
Future tenses
Predictions/statements of fact
• The sun will rise at 6.30 tomorrow.
• Lunch break today will be 10 minutes longer than usual.
• In the year 2050 all students will have their own computers in school.
The auxiliary verb will is used in making predictions or simple statements of fact about the future.
Intentions
The auxiliary verb going to is used in talking about intentions. (An intention is a plan for the future
that you have already thought about.)
• We're going to buy a new car next month.
• I'm going to work in a bank when I leave school.
• In the new year I'm going to stop eating so much junk.
• He's not going to go to the dance. He's got too much work.
http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/future.htm

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Arrangements
The present continuous tense is used in talking about arrangements. (An arrangement is is a
plan for the future that you have already thought about and discussed with someone else.)
• I'm meeting my mother at the airport tomorrow.
• Our grandparents are visiting us this Christmas.
• Sorry, I can't stay after school today; I'm playing tennis with Jun-Sik.
Scheduled events
The present simple tense is usually used to refer to future events that are scheduled (and outside
of our control).
• Hurry up! The train departs in 10 minutes.
• I leave Frankfurt at 5 o'clock in the morning and arrive in New York
• at midnight the next day.
• She has an appointment with the headmaster after school today.

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You can do it now!!!

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