Name: Eric Martins Cerqueira

Grammar Exercise

Source: Book: Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, ebook edition.

UNIT 5: Future and Future Progressive

1. Use be going to, will, the present progressive, and the simple present to talk about actions and
states in the future.
a. Use be going to or will for predictions.
Ex: Nothing is going to happen to you, Bella, he said just as fiercely. Pg 752
b. Use be going to (not will) when something in the present leads to a prediction.
Ex: (Its raining). My brother and sister, and Jasper and Rosalie for that matter, are
going to be quite upset if they have to stand in the rain waiting for me, Bella. Pg 208
c. Use be going to, will, or the present progressive talk about future intentions or plans.
Ex: Im not coming over anymore if Alice is going to treat me like Guinea Pig Barbie
when I do.pg 919
d. We often use will when we decide something at the moment of speaking.
Ex: Ill see what I can do, I snapped as I jumped out into the rain. Pg 209.
2. Use the future progressive with be going to or will to talk about actions that will be in
progress at a specific time in the future.
a. We often use the future progressive instead of the future to make a question more polite.
Ex: Will you be joining us for lunch tomorrow, dad? pg 162
b. People often use the future progressive to ask indirectly for a favor. This makes the
request more polite.
Ex: Are they going to be working in the Seattle Bay next weekend? Pg 438
3. In sentences with a future clause use the future or the future progressive in the main clause,
use the simple present or the present progressive in the time clause.
Ex: Just the same, Ill feel better when you have some sugar and food in you. Pg 331

Source: Book: A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, ebook edition

UNIT 6: Future Perfect and Future Perfect Progressive

1. Use the future perfect to talk about a future action that will already be completed by a
certain time in the future.
Ex: Lord Tywin will have gotten the word by the time you arrive there boy, you can
count on it. Pg 970
2. Use the future perfect progressive to talk about an action that will be in progress at a
certain time in the future. The action may start sometime in the future or it may have
already started.
Ex: How can you not know that Illyrio? By next year, I will have been leading the
Starks for twenty five years. Pg 455
3. Use the future perfect or the future perfect progressive with the simple present to show the
relationship between two future events. The event that will happen first uses the perfect.
The event that will happen second uses the simple present.
Ex: By the time the war ends, that cursed dragon will have destroyed all the south cities,
which means we have to devise our plans now. Pg 881
4. We often use already and yet with the future perfect to emphasize which event will happen
first.
Ex: By the time she finishes that obnoxious song, Ill have already eaten for a week
enough. Pg 1449