Simple Future Tense

• There is only one use of this tense.

1. The action which is going to happen in the future.
• S.F. = SUB + WILL/SHALL + V1 + OBJ
• here SHALL word is used with I and WE that is 1st person
singular and plural.
• Here SHALL word is also used in formal language.
• Formal language means when we are speaking to our
superiors.
• I shall complete my homework tomorrow.
• WILL word can be used with any subjects like I, WE, YOU, HE,
SHE, IT, THEY
• I will do my homework tomorrow.
• Words like TOMORROW, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW are the
indicators of this tense.
• Infinitives
• That means we can write simple future tense in two other ways.
• First is “TO BE GOING TO”
• To be = IS/AM/ARE WAS/WERE
• Let’s understand this with examples
• I am going to do my homework tomorrow.
• He is going to do his homework tomorrow.
• We are going to our homework tomorrow.
• Here all three sentences are indicating that action will be happened in future
tense.
• Remember that we have to put V1 after word GOING TO….you can clearly see in
the examples that I have put V1 after going to.
• Now next examples of WAS/WERE
• I was going to play cricket
• We were going to play cricket.
• That means in the past we were about to do the action.
• I was going to finish my homework yesterday.
• Here again we have to put V1 after GOING TO.
• That means action of finishing homework was about to be done yesterday but it
• Second is “TO BE TO”
• Again here TO BE means IS/AM/ARE WAS/WERE
• Let’s understand with examples
• I am to finish my homework tomorrow.
• We are to finish our homework tomorrow.
• He is to finish his homework tomorrow.
• Meaning is same as ‘TO BE GOING TO”
• Remember here again we have to put V1 after word TO.
• Now next examples of WAS/WERE
• I was to finish my homework yesterday.
• We were to finish our homework last night.
• Here again meaning is same as “TO BE GOING TO”
• Here again we have to put V1 after word TO.
• Negative Sentence
• We have to just put NOT after WILL/SHALL
• We will not go there.
• I shall not do my homework today.
• I am not going to my work tonight.
• He is not to finish his homework today.
• Interrogative Sentence.
• We have to put WILL and SHALL at the start of
sentence.
• Will he do his work tomorrow?
• Shall I go to market?
• Are we going on a trip?
• Is he to finish his work today?
• Passive Voice of Simple Future Tense
• S.F = OBJ + WILL/SHALL + BE + V3 + SUB
• Homework will be done by him tomorrow.
• I shall be given salary tomorrow.
• Homework IS GOING TO BE DONE by him.
• I AM GOING TO BE GIVEN salary tomorrow.
• Homework IS TO BE FINISHED tomorrow.
• Here in the passive voice of infinitives we have to
put BE + V3.
• Again it is not necessary to put BY and SUB every
time at the end of sentences.
 Exercise
• I ……. a new grammar book tomorrow. [buy]
• …… we ….. for a picnic tomorrow? [go]
• Tomorrow we ……. a holiday. [have]
• Tomorrow at 5pm the chief guest …… [arrive]
• It is five thirty. The train …….. soon [arrive]
• Tomorrow is a holiday. We ………. to school. [go]
• This work …….. tomorrow. [do]
• He ………. a first class in his next exam. [get]
• Keep your notebooks with you. It ……. later. [check]
• Train ………. at 5 tomorrow. [depart]
• No, I ……… to your party next week. [come]
• …….. you …… me tomorrow? [join]
• Medicine ……….. soon. [provide]
• My brother ………… a plan to satisfy poor people next month.
[to be + make]
• Dineshbhai ……… the meeting, but he did not. [to be +
attend]
• Magic ……….. in our school tomorrow. [to be + show]
• New project …….. up, but it did not. [to be + take]
• I ……….. up my brother yesterday, but he left. [to be + pick]
• This work …………. tomorrow. [to be + finish]
• We ……… a surprise, but it rained yesterday. [to be + give]
• Our teacher …….. a song, but students did not keep quiet. [to
be + sing]
• Hina ………. Mount Abu next week. [to be + go]
• No, a picture ……… tomorrow. [to be + draw]
• No, I ……… that work because it was too late. [to be + do]
• ……….. this bag …… later? [carry]
 Continuous Future Tense
• There is only one use of this tense.
1. The action which will be continued in the future.
• S.F = SUB + WILL + BE + VERB[ING] + OBJ.
• The action which is not started yet but will be continued in
the future.
• AT THIS MOMENT can be used as an indicator to this tense.
• For example = I will be doing my work at this time
tomorrow.
• He will be playing outside today at 5.
• We can also use TO BE GOING TO and TO BE TO with this
tense.
• I am going to be doing my work at this time tomorrow.
• I am to be doing my work at this time tomorrow.
• Negative Sentence
• It is quit easy…we have to just put NOT after Will
as we have learnt in simple future tense.
• We will not be witing outside your home after 7
tomorrow.
• I will not be playing cricket tomorrow at 5
• Interrogative Sentence
• It is also quit easy…we have to put only word
WILL at the start of the sentence.
• Will I be playing cricket outside tomorrow at 5 ?
• PLEASE NOTE = THERE IS NO PASSIVE VOICE OF
THIS TENSE.
 Exercise
• At midnight we …….. [sleep]
• This time, next week we …….. at beach. [sit]
• At nine, I …….. the news. [watch]
• Tonight at ten we ……. for our English test. [learn]
• They …… all night. [dance]
• He ……. all afternoon. [play]
• I ……. all day. [work]
• …….. you ……. at six ? [eat]
• …… he …… the party at the same time the day
after tomorrow ? [enjoy]
 Perfect Future Tense
• This tense is quit tricky.
• Try to understand it carefully.
• It has one use.
1. It is used for the action which will be completed in the future before another action in the
future.
• S.F. = SUB + WILL + HAVE + V3 + OBJ
• The party will have finished before you arrive.
• See, here both the action will happen in the future but the first party will get finished that is
why it is in perfect future tense and then next action of arrival will occur.
• Remember that we cannot write perfect future tense alone. In simple words, there must be
some other action that must be happened in the future.
• For example = I cannot write like sentence like “ The party will have ended”….this is completely
wrong.
• In short, if the two action will occur in the future, the first one we have to write in perfect future
tense.
• FROM NOW, BEFORE, WHEN are some of the indicators of this tense.
• This sentence formation is same for both singular and plural.
• We can also use TO BE GOING TO and TO BE TO in this tense
• The party is going to have finished before you arrive.
• The party is to have finished before you arrive.
• Negative Sentence
• It is again quit easy… we just have to put NOT
after Will.
• The party will not have ended before you arrive.
• I will not have completed my homework untill
teacher asks.
• Interrogative Sentence
• We just have to put WILL at the start of
sentence.
• Will the party have ended before I arrive ?
• Will you have completed your homework until
teacher arrives ?
• Passive Voice of Perfect Future Tense
• S.F. = OBJ + WILL + HAVE + BEEN + V3 + BY + SUB
• Homework will have been completed by me
before you arrive.
• Sentence formation is same for both singular and
plural.
• Here again it is not necessary to put BY and SUB
every time at the end of the sentence.
• Vegetables will have been sold before you arrive.
• I will have been salary before the end of this
month.
 Exercise
• I …….. by six. [leave]
• ……. you …….. the report by the deadline ? [finish]
• Exams …………. by then, so we can go outside for dinner.
[finish]
• Book ……. by you before next class. [read]
• No, she ……. her work by seven. [complete]
• We ……. in London for three years next week. [to be]
• …….. She …….. home by lunch time ? [get]
• No, we ………… before we come, so we will be hungry. [eat]
• How long ………. you ……. him before you get married ?
[know]
• No, this essay ………. by tonight. [write]
• I ………. there before eight. [to be]
 Perfect Future Continuous Tense
• This tense is also quite tricky to understand.
• There is only one use of this tense.
1. It is used for the action which has been started in the past or present but will be
continued in the future.
• S.F. = SUB + WILL + HAVE + BEEN + VERB[ING] + OBJ + SINCE/FOR
• SINCE or FOR indicates the starting point of the action.
• I will have been working in this company since 2011.
• That means the action of working was started in 2011 and it will be continued in the
future.
• This tense CANNOT BE USED with words like BEFORE, AS SOON AS, WHEN, WHILE.
• Another examples
• I will have been waiting for him for few minutes before he arrives.
• When he wakes up, I will have been swimming for two hours.
• Here I have not used words like BEFORE and WHEN with this tense, I have used them
with different sentence like, WHEN HE WAKES UP…this sentence is not of future
perfect continuous tense.
• We can also use TO BE GOING TO and TO BE TO in this tense.
• I am going to have been working in this company since 2011.
• I am to have been working in this company since 2011.
• Negative Sentence
• As in all future tense we just have to put NOT
after Will.
• I will not have been waiting for you for ten
minutes when you arrive.
• Interrogative Sentence
• Same as all the future tense we just have to put
WILL at the start of sentence.
• Will you have been waiting for ten minutes when
I arrive ?
• PLEASE NOTE = THERE IS NO PASSIVE VOICE OF
THIS TENSE.
 Exercise
• I ……… all weekend, so I will not be energetic for the party at
Sunday night. [work]
• How long ….. you ……… when you finally get your exam result ?
[wait]
• No, Hina …………. much, so we will have to prepare accordingly.
[eat]
• …… she ……… for long by the time we reach there ? [wait]
• ……. he ……… games for ten hours, when he finally stops ? [play]
• They …….. all day, so they will not go outside in the evening.
[study]
• No, they ………. in hotel for so long, when he arrives. [stay]
• I …….. for houses for four months next week. [look]
• ……. you …….. exams for ten hours, the day we meet ? [take]
• No, they ………….. for long, when they arrive. [travel]
• We ……… this project so long, when you arrive. [do]
 Mixed Exercise
• ……. she ….. the next competition ? [win]
• She ……….., when we arrive. [wait]
• I …….. this work, by next week. [finish]
• I ……… here for one year next year. [live]
• Exams ………….. by whom next week ? [to be +
crack]
• She ……….. for long, so she must be tired. [study]
• How you ……… home tonight ? [to be + get]
• I ……… home later. [come]
• She ………. the train by 3pm. [catch]
• It ………. tomorrow. [to be + rain]
• We ……….. in Bermuda by this time tomorrow. [arrive]
• John ……. at 4am [sleep]
• No, I ……… the report by 5pm tomorrow. [complete]
• How long ……… you …… him, when you get married ?
[see]
• Dinner ……… by 8pm [eat]
• It ……… in Gujarat at the same time next week. [rain]
• When the house ………. by her ? [to be + sell]
• No, homework ………. by her tomorrow. [do]
• How long ……. you ….. here, when you retire ? [work]
• When you ……… everything you want to ? [to be + do]
• No, they ……….. here on time. [to be + reach]
• No, we ………. dinner at that time. [eat]
• No, he ……….. here for three years next week. [work]
• ……. she …….her car to the party ? [to be + take]
• No, exercise ………… tomorrow [do]
• What ......... you ………., before dinner ? [do]
• …… you ….. here tomorrow ? [drive]
• She ……… at beach at the same time tomorrow. [lie]
• They ………… all day, so I will cook. [work]
• ….. you ….. at this time tomorrow ? [arrive]
• He ……… his work by the time she gets home. [finish]