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Future tenses. Alternative forms to express the future. There are four differe...
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Future tenses. Alternative forms to express the future.
There are four different ways in English to talk about the future. You can use the simple future, the going to-future, the present progressive and the present simple to write or talk about future actions.
Simple Future Tense | Going to-future | Present Progressive | Present Simple in the future |
1.To talk about future actions we can't influence or control. 2.To foretell future actions or to express hopes, expectations, fears, offers, promises and refusals. 3.With I /we for spontaneous reactions or making promises.
| 1.To talk about future things you intend to do, plan or decided to do. 2. To foretell future actions for which we have proofs that they are going to happen. | To talk about future things that are fixed, planned or definitely decided. The speaker must refer to the future and not to the present. | To talk about times of arrivals and departures of traffic and times of events. |
What time ______ work on Monday?