Monday 20 April 2009

The Future in English

There is no proper "future tense" in English. However, there are multiple ways of expressing future time: Will, Be going to, Present continuous and Present simple.

Tense & Time
Tense is a grammatical category while time is a semantic one.
It is important not to confuse the name of a verb tense with the way we use it to talk about time. Look at the following chart to see how different tenses can be used to talk about different times.

Will, Be going to, Present continuous and Present simple for Future Time
Present continuous: Explanation and exercises
Present simple: Explanation and exercises
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1 comment:

victoria said...

hello!!! we are lorena, rafa, espina y victoria. These exercises seem easy but sometimes it wrong with the times. bye kisses