Name: Future tense: English grammar tutorial video lesson
Uploaded: 2016-08-20T12:24:31.000Z
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Welcome to englishgrammarspot this lesson is about the future tenses.

Future simple

In this lesson I am going to show you how to form a future tense

By this time tomorrow he will be lying on the beach.

But as you can see there is quite some variation.

The most commonly used future tenses are:

shall and will and the base form of the verb,

to be going to and the base form of the verb,

to be about to and the base form of the verb, that

Let's take a look at shall and will and the base form of the verb:

we use this form for things decided on the spot.

We need to pay attention to shall, because we only use shall in questions with

We use will contracting it into won't and the base form

becomes shan't and the base form of the verb.

But this form is very old-fashioned, but I thought it would be fun to put it in

We won't make the beds. They won't need a passport.

Now let's take a look at that other form: to be + going to + the base form of the verb.

We use this form for fixed plans in the future.

We need to know when it's going to happen so we need to have some kind of

They are going to mark the tests in an hour.

It's quite likely that these plans will follow through. follow through

Am I going to pass my exams this afternoon?

Are they going to run the marathon next week? week

I am not going to leasrn it by heart this evening. evening

He isn't going to buy a new computer on Tuesday. tuesday

They aren't going to watch the telly this night. night

Sometimes we also use a present continuous when talking about the future,

we use the present continuous for plans in very near future

and again and we need to know when they are happening.

We are driving down the street any minute now.

Sometimes we also use the present simple for the future,

another form to talk about the future use to use to be plus the base

when you are are on the vege of doing something. something

We use this form for something that can happen happen

They are about open the department store. store

we use the future continuous when you tell someone about your future plans,

something that you will be doing atspecific time specific time

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Future tense: English grammar tutorial video lesson

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