Present subjunctive: examples, negative + verbs; if and whether; should

Past subjunctive: form, uses – it is time –

Oxford, 62-64 Present subjunctive

Oxford, 65 -- Past Form
Uses
It is time
Would rather/prefer
If and wish
Suppose, imagine
It is about time, it is high time
Ox, 68 Present tenses for the future itinerary, programme, timetable:
verbs
Present continuous: arrangement
now (arranged, agreed, finalised)
Present continuous – future
(marriage, work, going swimming
Be going to having
Are you doing/going

Ox, 70 Present tenses after time When, after, as soon as, until,
conjunctions before – present simple

Continuous: when, while, the

next time you are working

One is completed: when, until –

two clauses can go in either order

Time conjunctions: when, whle,

as soon soon as, before, after,
until, the moment, the minute, by
the time, next time,

Relative clause: present tense

Anyone who arrives late will not
be allowed to enter
Wil the person who is last to leave
please turn off the lights?
I will get whicherver bus arrives
first

Hope: I hope your exams go well.

I hope it is not raining when we
get there.

Nou clause: that, question word,

if
 What we do will depend on

You must let me know which train

you decide
Be to, be about to Be to
Be about to
Due to
Set to
Be to +
Be just about to
On the verge of
On the point of + ing
be
bound/certain/sure/likely/unlikely
Was to/was about to
Be going to Are you going to have lunch soon
He is going to make an
announcement
I am not going to tell you

Be going to: to talk about future

plans made before the time of
speaking
To make predictions based on
evidence

Be going to or present continuous

Finalised – continuous; be going
to –

I am going shopping; I am going

to bed; Are you going to the
coffee shop

Going to – plans, intensiont in the

past
Not yet, but I am going to
Will, shall I will be a bit late for the meeting
I will be 20 next week
Stop worrying, I will be there
I will email you the full details by
the end of the day
I will not tolerate this behaviour

Uses of will (3) and shall (2) for

the future
Let us /let’s + shall

Will, be going to, present

continuous
 Will/be going to – predictions,
actions
Be going to or present continuous
for plans, intensitns,
arrangements, events
Will – news,
Be going to + will

85 Future continuous: will be + ing

Uses (2)

Future perfect: will have + past

participle

Future perfect continuous

Be going to instead of will

By/by this time – future

continuous/future perfect
CBG Futurate Uses: cyclic events, scheduled
events, conditioals
Progressive futurate

Present futurate involves a time

component

Now
At that stage
At that juncture

Deictic future time

Conditionals: if, unless, provided,

assume, suppose, whether

Integrated relative clauses

Comparative clauses

Bet, wager, hope

it is essential, I insist
It is essential that he should finish
tomorrow

Future interpretation of a non-

deicitc time
 Two soures for a future
interpretation of a subordinate
clause
Verbs+infinitive or ing Can’t bear, hate, love, prefer, like

Attempt, begin, propose,

continue, intend, start, plan

forget, remember

try

go on

mean

regret

stop

hear, see, watch

admit

allow, forbid, permit

consider

imagine

require

Verbs normally followed by inf +

to

appear, so happen

want

appreciate

involve

help

make

let

dare
Past time reference in
combination with
politeness/diffidence

I wanted to ask your advice

I wondered whether I could see
you for a couple of minutes.
I was hoping to speak to

Past futurate:
Originally entries closed
tomorrow, but they’ve decided to
allow another week.

I was leaving for Sydney the next

day, and couldn’t spend mhc time
with them

Non-deictic anteriority:
If you don’t but it, you will soon
regret that you missed such a
bargan

Perfect tense:
He is believed to have written it
last week.

Perfect non-deictic:
T<past
T<present
T<future T

Compound tenses:
AT that time; now
Preterite perfect

Complex anteriority:
continuative or non-continuative

Atelic situation

Experiential perfecr

Omissibility of the perfect: after,

as soon as, before