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MUHI English; Empowering Your English

SUMMARY

A. Future – Will
1. For things we decide to do
- I will call you later
- I think we will go right now. (I just decided this right now)
2. When we think or believe something about the future
- The president will not be re-elected for the third time
3. To make an offer, a promise or a threat
- You look tired, I will drive for you.
- I will have it ready by this afternoon.

B. Future Progressive
Form
S + will/ shall + be + V ing
S + will/ shall + not + be + V ing
Will/ Shall + S + be + V ing

1. Future continuos tense is used to state or ask an event/ action which is taking place
in the future.
2. The future progessive tense is used to talk about an action that will already have started
and will still be happening by a certain time in the future.
- She will still be studying in school at 11 a.m.
- What will you be doing doing at 7 a.m. tomorrow?

3. To form a sentence in the future perfect progresive use will + have + been + verb-ing
form of the verb.
- By the time you get here, we will have been remodeling the house for a month.
- By 2018, my father will have been teaching for more that 30 years.

C. The Future Perfect tense
Form
S + will + have + V3
S + will + not + have + V3
Will + S + have + V3
Ali borrows my novel on Monday, he will read it for three days, He will have read the novel by
Saturday.
1. Future perfect tense is used to state or ask an event/ action which has been done
in the future.
2. The future perfect is used to explain an activity that will be completed by a certain time
in the future
3. We add time expression such as by the time, by then, by the year 2020 to describe
the activity
4. To form the future perfect tense, use will have+V3 (past participle) form of the verb.
- By the end of this weekend, I will have completed my lesson
- I won’t have finished this video project by the end of June.

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