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📚 Future tenses (will, going to, present continuous, future continuous, and simple present (multiple choice).

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✅ Here are the correct answers:

1⃣ C. am about to go

◽This is something that is going to happen very soon.

2⃣ C. is coming

◽The question refers to the near future, so we expect that arrangements have been made.

3⃣ C. am going to do

◽This is a personal intention, already decided.

4⃣ C. get

◽Present tenses are often used in subordinate clauses to refer to the future.

5⃣ A. will be lying

◽The action will be in progress at a specific time in the future.


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✨Will and Present forms: both possible✌🏻

Will and present forms (especially going to ...) are often both possible in the same situation, if ‘present’ ideas like intention or fixed arrangement are a part of the meaning, but not very important. The choice can depend on which aspect we wish to emphasise.

🔹What will you do next year?
(open question about the future; perhaps no clear plans have been made)
🔸What are you doing next year? (emphasis on fixed arrangements)
◽️What are you going to do next year? (emphasis on intentions)

🔹All the family will be there.
◽️All the family are going to be there.

🔹If your mother comes, you’ll have to help with the cooking.
◽️If your mother comes, you're going to have to help with the cooking.

🔹You won’t believe this.
◽️You’re not going to believe this.

🔹Next year will be different.
◽️Next year is going to be different.

🔹Jack will explain everything to you.
◽️Jack’s going to explain everything to you.

➖Both going to ... and stressed will can express a strong intention or determination.

◽️I’m really going to stop smoking!
🔹I really will stop smoking!

➖In cases like these, the different forms are all correct, and it is unimportant which one is chosen.

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✨Different meanings of will you ...?


➖ With a verb referring to a state, will you ...? asks for information.

🔹How soon will you know your travel dates?
🔹Will you be here next week?

➖ With a verb referring to an action, will you ...? usually introduces an order or request.

🔹Will you turn offthat music!
🔹Will you do the shopping this afternoon, please?

➖ To ask for information about planned actions, we use a present form or the future progressive.

🔹When are you going to see Andy?
🔹Are you doing the shopping this afternoon?
🔹Will you be doing the shopping...?

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⚪️Future perfect

(will have + past participle)

➖ We can use the future perfect to say that something will be finished or complete by a certain time in the future.

🔹The builders say they will have finished the roof by Tuesday.

🔹I’ll have spent all my savings by the end of the year.

➖A progressive form can be used to talk about a continuous activity.

🔹I’ll have been teaching for twenty years this summer.

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(BE TO + infinitive)

1️⃣Plans and arrangements:

✨We use this structure in a formal style to talk about official and other plans and arrangements.

🔹The President is to visit Nigeria next month.
🔹We are to get a 10 per cent wage rise in June.
🔹I felt nervous because I was soon to leave homefor the first time.

✨A perfect infinitive can be used to show that a planned event did not happen.

🔹I was to have started work last week, but I changed my mind.

2️⃣ 'fate':

✨Another use is to talk about things which are/were ‘hidden in the future’, fated to happen.

🔹I thought we were saying goodbye for ever. But we were to meet again, many years later, under very strange circumstances.

3️⃣ pre-conditions:

✨This structure is common in if-clauses, when the main clause expresses a pre­ condition - something that must happen first if something else is to happen.

🔹If we are to get there by lunchtime, we had better hurry.
🔹He knew he would have to work hard if he was to pass his exam.

4️⃣ orders:

✨The structure is used to give orders, for example by parents speaking to children.

🔹You are to do your homework before you watch TV.
🔹She can go to the party, but she's not to be back late.

5️⃣ be + passive infinitive:

✨Be + passive infinitive is often used in notices and instructions.

am/are/is (not) to be + past participle

🔹This cover is not to be removed.

✨Sometimes only the passive infinitive is used.

🔹To be taken three times a day after meals, (on a medicine bottle)

✨Some other common expressions with be + passive infinitive:

🔹There’s nothing to be done.
🔹She was nowhere to be found.
🔹I looked out of the window, but there was nothing to be seen.

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🔰FUTURE IN THE PAST


✨Sometimes when we are talking about the past, we want to talk about something which was in the future at that time - which had not yet happened. To express this idea, we use the structures that are normally used to talk about the future, but we make the verb forms PAST. For example, instead of is going to we use was going to; instead of the present progressive we use the past progressive; instead of will we use would; instead of is to we use was to.

🔹Last time I saw you, you were going to start a new job.

🔹I had no time to shop because I was leaving for Germany in two hours.

🔹In 1988, I arrived in the town where I would spend ten years of my life.

🔹I went to have a look at the room where I was to talk that afternoon.

➖Perfect forms of be going to are also possible:

🔹I’ve been going to write to you for ages, but I’ve only just found time.

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