The document discusses different ways to express future tenses in English. The future simple tense uses "will" plus the infinitive verb to talk about decisions made now or predictions without evidence. The "be going to" construction expresses plans for the future or predictions based on evidence, using "be going to" plus the infinitive verb. The future continuous tense uses "will be" plus the present participle verb to talk about actions that will be in progress at a point in the future. The future perfect simple uses "will have" plus the past participle to refer to actions that will be finished by a certain time in the future.
The document discusses different ways to express future tenses in English. The future simple tense uses "will" plus the infinitive verb to talk about decisions made now or predictions without evidence. The "be going to" construction expresses plans for the future or predictions based on evidence, using "be going to" plus the infinitive verb. The future continuous tense uses "will be" plus the present participle verb to talk about actions that will be in progress at a point in the future. The future perfect simple uses "will have" plus the past participle to refer to actions that will be finished by a certain time in the future.
The document discusses different ways to express future tenses in English. The future simple tense uses "will" plus the infinitive verb to talk about decisions made now or predictions without evidence. The "be going to" construction expresses plans for the future or predictions based on evidence, using "be going to" plus the infinitive verb. The future continuous tense uses "will be" plus the present participle verb to talk about actions that will be in progress at a point in the future. The future perfect simple uses "will have" plus the past participle to refer to actions that will be finished by a certain time in the future.
They will build the building.{will + inf.} *I will ring my friend to borrow her car./decision made at the time of speaking *My son will be famous one day. /predictions without evidence
***BE GOING TO [expressing future]
They are going to build the building. *They are going to paint the living room green at the weekend. / future plan *Oh, no. The window is open and the rain is going to come in. Look at those clouds. It is going to rain./predictions based on evidence
2. FUTURE CONTINOUS TENSE
They will be building the building. {will+be+-ing verb} *She will be decorating the baby’s room all afternoon./ planned future action that will be in progress at certain time in the future 3. FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE They will have built the building. [ will+have+ past participle] *The architect will have finished the design for the skyscraper by next month./action that will be finished by certain time in the future