📄️ Future
There is no future tense in English. We use several different ways to talk about the future. The most common are:
📄️ Future: will and shall
Will and shall: form
📄️ Future continuous (I will be working)
Future continuous: form
📄️ Future perfect simple (I will have worked eight hours)
Future perfect simple: form
📄️ Future perfect continuous (I will have been working here ten years)
Future perfect continuous: form
📄️ Future: present simple to talk about the future (I work tomorrow)
The present simple is used to refer to events in the future which are certain because they are facts, or because there is a clear or fixed schedule or timetable:
📄️ Future: present continuous to talk about the future (I’m working tomorrow)
The present continuous can refer to the future. It shows that we have already decided something and usually that we have already made a plan or arrangements:
📄️ Future: be going to (I am going to work)
Be going to: form
📄️ Going to
Going to: present continuous
📄️ Future: other expressions to talk about the future
We use a number of expressions with main verb be when we refer to the future, especially the immediate future.
📄️ Future in the past
When we talk about the past, we sometimes want to refer to something which was in the future at the time we were speaking. We use past verb forms to do this:
📄️ Future: typical errors
We don’t use the present continuous when we predict something: