In grammar, a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet.
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Differences between ways to express future actions
I asked this question on a different site but I haven't gotten a useful answer. Could you tell me the difference in meaning between these sentences?
Do you think you will visit them next week? ...
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When should I use “shall” versus “will”?
Which is the correct use of these two words, and in which context should one be used rather than the other?
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When should I use “Would”, “Would have”, “Will”, and “Will have”?
I hope someone, once and for all, can clarify (with examples) the difference in usage of will vs. would vs. would have vs. will have.
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Future tense in conditional clauses
All the textbooks I have ever come across during the course of my studying English emphasize that future tense should not be used in conditional clauses.
For example,
If it rains in the evening, ...
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“The train will leave” vs. “is going to leave” vs. “leaves” vs. “is leaving”
From the grammatical point of view all are correct, just the meaning are different, please bring your clarification, thank you.
The Train will leave at 10:00 tomorrow morning.
The Train is ...
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“If I go..” vs. “If I will go..” referring to the future [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Future tense in conditional clauses
Which one is correct?
option 1: If I go there, I can meet her
or
option 2: If I will go there, I can meet her
I clearly ...
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Usage of “will” and “would”
Which one is correct?
What would I do without you.
What will I do without you.
You would always be my favorite travel buddy.
You will always be my favorite travel buddy.
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Why do I instinctively want to use the present tense with a conditional?
My boss is not a native speaker of English, so he often asks me to correct his writing. The problem is, he wants me to explain why I make changes, and doesn't accept "it just sounds better that way" ...
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When do I have to use 'will' instead of 'going to'?
Does going to only express an intention and will some kind of prediction that doesn't necessarily happen?
EDIT:
Thanks for all your answers. I asked this question because I always fail to complete ...
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When did periphrastic tenses stop being tenses?
English sometimes has several different ways of expressing the same thing. For example, it can form a possessive either by using an old case inflection:
The dog’s tail was always wagging.
Or it ...
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Future tense usage: “When you see it …”
I wonder why the phrase is "When you see it you will shit brix," and not "When you will see it you will shit brix."
Is the version with two will incorrect? What grammar rule says that you should not ...
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Conditionals in the future
My colleague and I have a hot discussion about which is correct.
My version is:
If you don't fix the bug I will send you a patch.
and his one is:
I would send you a patch if you don't fix ...
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Which is correct: “when you have finished” or “when you will finish”?
From an English test on Facebook:
When you have finished to move the furniture, let me know.
or
When you will finish moving the furniture, let me know.
I think the correct one is the ...
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Make “will have been going to go” correct
Is there a situation or question where the phrase will have been going to go is the best, most natural, or clearest response (or included in said response)?
I'm asking this probably somewhat silly ...
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Present tense for future events
Why does it sound perfectly natural to say Our flight leaves tomorrow at 6pm but weird to say It rains tomorrow at 6pm? What kind of scenario, if any, could make the rain sentence sound natural?
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Speculative conditional: Why does it use the past tense or past perfect tense?
We use simple past to state a hypothetical present situation that we would like to speculate about (If they were here, I would be happy), past perfect for a hypothetical past (had they been here, I ...
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Simple Present for Future Actions
Why can we use the following statement when we mean future events?
What time do you get there?
Or should we rather say:
What time will you get there?
Is there a difference?
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About the use of future tense
Which is better:
"I am not having lunch tomorrow unless I am really hungry."
"I am not having lunch tomorrow unless I will be really hungry."
Something else
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Scientific article style: present or future
This question often pops up when writing scientific articles. Which of the two is preferred?
This issue is described in detail in Section 4.
or
This issue will be described in detail in ...
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Pronunciation of “'ll”
How do I read the following sentences (especially in conversational speech)?
The dog'll eat the bones.
Tom'll go to school.
Anna'll come tomorrow.
I mean the sound of 'll.
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Is “even if…” followed by present or future tense?
Is it correct to say:
even if only James Bond will benefit from...
or
even if only James Bond benefits from...
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Is this correct: “Water will be being drunk by Michael”?
I started with "Michael is drinking water", which I could convert to "Water is being drunk by Michael", which I could change to the past tense as "Water was being drunk by Michael".
That leads me to ...
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What tense is “If I were a bird, I could fly”
The sentence is not referring to any time past, present of future. It's just referring to an imaginary condition which has never existed and seemingly will never exist. Still, the sentence and other ...
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Is “this Monday” or “next Monday” the correct way to refer to the very next Monday in the future? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What day is next Tuesday?
When I refer to the very next Monday that will occur in the future, I say "next Monday". Some colleagues refer to it as "this Monday", with ...
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Is the conditional a mood or a tense?
Is the conditional a mood or a tense? I've heard it described in both ways.
It seems more like a mood as it is often lumped with hypothetical constructions and the subjunctive mood. I could see it ...
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The next century will begin on the 1st of January 2001
In a test, I was asked to choose between will and be going to forms in a sentence expressing futurity:
The next century __ (to begin) on the 1st of January 2001.
My guess is that the choice ...
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What tense should be used here?
Is use of present simple correct in these examples?
My daughter goes to school tomorrow [for the first time].
I go to school to talk to my daughter's teacher tomorrow [and this happens ...
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About two mutually related, future actions [closed]
Is it correct to say: "I will do that thing when I will talk to him."?
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“You were already having been going to do that!”
From one of the Futurama episodes:
Farnsworth A: You people and your
slight differences disgust me. I'm
going home. Where's that blue box with
our universe in it?
Farnsworth 1: Oh,
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“will be able to” vs. “can”
Consider the following:
He will be able to do it.
He can do it.
They mean the same thing, right?
Can "can" replace "will be able to" in any sentence? What is the difference, if anything? ...
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“get” or “is” regarding the future
Which of the following would be correct? Is it a question of dialect?
"If this question gets answered, ..."
"If this question is answered, ..."
(Inspired by this answer.)
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Future perfect progressive
When is the future perfect progressive used? I am trying to understand in which cases it should be used, but I cannot find any practice examples of sentences using that tense.
I will have been ...
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“Will graduate” vs. “will be graduated” vs. “is going to graduate”
Which of the following sentences are correct?
He will graduate in May.
He will be graduated in May.
He is going to graduate in May.
Issue 1: Is the second one grammatical?
Issue 2: ...
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A prediction made in the past that affects something we will do in the future
Please ignore the factual accuracy of this sentence and focus on the tenses used.
If the Mayans were wrong to end the calendar on Dec. 20, 2012, we'll use your donation to fund 2013 programming.
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Alternative to “is going to be”
I want to find a synonym to "is going to be" in a sentence like: "X is going to be outdated after Y joins X".
I could have chosen "will be", but I want something more incisive, and less "in the ...
