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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Can we Present tense to represent future action? [closed]
Is this sentence construction correct?
Please let me know once you receive it.
"You receive it" is present tense. When we add "once" to it, it represents future action. So, can I generally use ...
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Improper expressions of the future progressive
A thread on ELL makes me reconsider how I might naturally misuse other tenses when the future progressive is intended.
For example, I might pass out work assignments in the following ways:
"John, ...
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Can we use future continuous in the following sentence?
"I have instructed that the cheque latest have to be issued by 15th every month, is there any problems? Please voiced out earlier if there's any issues in future. This will be the last time I'll be ...
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Can we use should /would and /could in Future perfect tense
I would have finished my home work by evening .
He should have been more careful.
Can these be used as future perfect tense ?
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“Would remain” vs. “would have remained”
What's the difference in meaning between the following two sentences?
He thought that he would remain young.
He thought that he would have remained young.
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“When I am 18, I will…” or “When I will be 18, I will…” [duplicate]
Should I say:
When I am 18, I'll take my driving test
or
When I'll be 18, I'll take my driving test
Which one is the correct sentence?
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Future Passive Progressive? [duplicate]
Does some future passive progressive tense exist, such as:
He will be being interviewed by police."
as a counterpart to the past passive progressive tense, such as:
He was being ...
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Can the Future Perfect be used in a main clause of a conditional sentence that has a stative/non-action verb in the if-clause?
A student asked me this question today about a sentence like:
(1) If Canada's population is 40 million, the Canadian economy will have been more dynamic.
I was asked if it corresponded, in a future ...
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“I stay in Canada” vs. “I will stay in Canada” [duplicate]
Situation: I am in Canada and will go back to Hong Kong next week. So, I want to tell my friends that "I will stay in Canada until the 6th of March".
Question: I do not know if the word will should ...
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Is there a difference between 'eventually' and 'in the future'? [closed]
I was at a yoga class and the instructor said something about how a posture will 'eventually or in the future allow you to roll your spine out.'.
And then I wanted to know, is there a difference ...
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Saying about many related events in the future
My question relates to these questions :
Conditionals in the future
Future tense in conditional clauses
“If I go..” vs. “If I will go..” referring to the future
About two mutually related, future ...
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“has”+perfect in reported speech of the future
(1) I will jump out from behind the couch. Then I will tell him: "I have been in the room all along."
(2) I will pronounce him dead. Then I will tell him: "You have been pronounced dead."
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“The more time a person invests” vs. 'the more time a person will invest'
Consider the following two sentences:
Because the more time a person invests into specific interests, the better their results.
Because the more time a person will invest into their specific ...
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Difference between future and present cont. in “going” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do the tenses in English correspond temporally to one another?
Differences between ways to express future actions
Does the below sentence indicate future tense or ...
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question about the future tense
In a sentence like
How do you get to the train station?
What would be an appropriate answer (tense wise)? Could you say both of these two:
I’ll drive you.
I’m going to drive you.
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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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How to avoid past/future tense?
I'm writing a Software Design Document. It is being written in parallel to the development, so as some features are already finished they are written in past tense (the only way I know of articulating ...
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Is every sentence in a tense?
I know that "tense" indicates time. If that is true, then not every sentence can be indicated of its tense.
Please review these sentences:
"If I could go to the market , I must have taken breakfast ...
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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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Question about the future “tense”
My daughter, who is in the 4th grade, was asked to answer questions about the following sentence:
What time can you meet us at the school on Tuesday?
She was asked questions about the usage of ...
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Won't followed by noun
I try to understand the song 'Sober' by band Tool. And there are couple of sentence with won't followed by pronoun or noun and without verb. For example:
'Jesus, won't you f*cking whistle nothing
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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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Future perfect or Future perfect continuous in the following sentence?
I am not sure why this sentence is incorrect from tense's perspective.
It is certain that the construction of the road will be completed by the winter of 2014.
Also, according to my book its ...
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Specific and unspecific future
According to ENGLISHPAGE.com, if the Past Perfect action did occur at a specific time, the Simple Past can be used instead of the Past Perfect when "before" or "after" is used in the sentence. The ...
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“going to” vs “will”
I know several questions were asked about the difference between "going to" and "will".
Based on several answers (see, for instance, here, here and here), I understood that "will" is more spontaneous ...
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Should one use the future tense when describing the organisation of a paper? [closed]
Writing the introduction of a scientific paper, should I say "Below, I propose blablabla" or "Below, I am going to propose blablabla"?
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How do I ask “when” without implying past or future?
"When did or will the event happen?" — This sounds silly to me.
To make matters worse, I would like to use passive voice because the question is in reference to a statement that uses passive voice.
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will be possible to be used
Is it (1) correct, (2) natural/wise to say the following in english: "[X] will be possible to be used here as [Y, ie. some function/role]"?
Are there any alternatives, and if there are, are they a ...
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Importance and relevance (and accuracy) of the distinctions of the two forms of the future simple tense [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the guidelines for usage of “will” and “is/are going to”?
I am an ESL teacher in Thailand at a business college. I have been plagued ...
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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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“I am going to have to”, “I have to”, and “I will have to”
What is the difference between these two:
I am going to have to see you sometime.
I have to see you sometime.
When would you use the first one?
On that note, how is . . .
I will have to see ...
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“In” vs. “after” for future talk
The class will be over in 10 minutes.
The class will be over after 10 minutes.
I know the first is correct but why?
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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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“Going to go” vs “going to”
1) I am going to go watch a game.
2) I am going to a game.
3) I am going to golf.
4) I am going to go golfing.
What are the differences and similarities between and among sentences ...
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The use of “will” in assumptions
We can use will for both past and future assumptions. But how do we differentiate if it refers to past assurance or future possibility? For example:
You will know all about Rachel, of course.
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What's the difference between “he's going to start walking” and “he's going to walk”? [closed]
What's the difference between "he's going to start walking" and "he's going to walk"? Are there any shades of meaning here?
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“how soon I get” vs. “how soon I will get”
What is the difference between the following:
It depends on how soon I get my visa.
It depends on how soon I will get my visa.
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“rain was coming till tomorrow”
I am asking this question on behalf of a friend of mine. Do tell me, can and when or why can we use past form when we predict something in the future. I agree the phrase is not full. Anyway, the ...
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The real tense of “I'm going to be talking about”
I just listened to a video in which the speaker said "I'm going to be talking about....". Can we change that to "I'm going to talk about..."?
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Past simple vs present perfect in this example
Could you explain to me please what is the difference between these. It is meant to express that I will let him know AFTER I picked/have picked a car.
I'll let you know which one I picked
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Using 'would' to talk about past with examples
The following are sentences,
I would take the dogs out on a walk.
I would have took the dogs out on a walk.
I would took the dogs out on a walk.
I understood them as follows:
Possible action to ...
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Is “the benefits of this will much more” correct? [closed]
Is this sentence correct?
The benefits of this will much more
or it should be like this:
The benefits of this will be much more
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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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“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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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 about to …” vs. “… is going to …”
I found that is about to is used in the following sentence of the news article titled “Tech belt sees hiring surge” in The Boston Globe.
“The company is about to go on a hiring spree, from ...
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“will you be going home” vs. “will you go home”
What's the difference between saying;
Will you be going home this summer?
Will you go home this summer?
Are there any differences between these in written or spoken English?
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“Will” and “Going To”. What are the real differences of the colloquial usage of them?
I'm from Brasil and here we study the differences of using "Will" and "Going to" to talk about the future. But it is usually very confusing because we have a different kind of conjugation that uses no ...
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Will be going to get engaged
Is it okay to say:
He will be going to get engaged to his ex-girl friend.
Is there a better of saying this?
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“The more you (will) ask them, the harder it will be”
Is this correct?
The more you will ask them, the harder it will be.
Should I use
The more you ask them, the harder it will be
instead?
