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For the second season episode of In Linguistics , a future tense is a verb form that marks the event described by a verb as not having happened yet, but expected to in the future. FUTURE TENSES IN ENGLISH In English , as in most Germanic Languages , there is no future tense in the sense of a specific Inflection that marks a verb for futurity after the fashion of the markers that appear in the Preterite forms of the Past Tense . Rather, the future tense is marked by the use of a number of Auxiliary Verb s. Now '' Will '' serves as the ordinary marker of the English future tense. The former distinction between ''shall'' and ''will'' may have been levelled due to the reduction, in most ordinary speech, of either form to the contraction '' The verb '' Shall '' can also be used as a future tense marker, but it is now growing less used in that function. It appears in a desiderative function with Subjunctive force in legal ordinances and similar documents:
and in strong declarations of intent or resolve:
The Verb Phrase ''be going to'' also marks a future construction in English; it too is frequently contracted. '' Going-to Future '' marks future planned activity and prediction based on fact. For example: ''I am going to do my homework tomorrow. It is going to rain on Wednesday.'' "Going to" is often contracted in spoken English to "gonna". For example: ''It's gonna rain on Wednesday.'' Simple Future Tense The structure of the Simple Future Tense is:
To make a sentence negative, simply add ''not'' between the auxiliary verb and the main verb. To make it a question, exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. The simple future tense can be used in conjunction with the verb ''to think'' as well as predictions (''I think I will watch a movie.'' ''There will be a colony on mars by 2050.''). It can also be used to indicate a state of being, such as ''I will be in Chicago.'' Future Continuous Tense The structure of the Future Continuous Tense is:
To make a sentence negative, simply add ''not'' between ''will'' and ''be''. To make it a question, exchange the subject and auxiliary verb ''will''. The future continuous tense is used to indicate an action that occurs at a certain moment in the future. The action will start before the moment, but will not have finished. ''It will be snowing when you come home.'' Future Perfect Tense The structure of the Future Perfect Tense is:
To make a sentence negative, simply add ''not'' between ''will'' and ''have''. To make it a question, exchange the subject and auxiliary verb ''will''. The future perfect tense is used to express an action in the future before another action in the future. In essence, it indicates past in the future. ''The football game will have finished before you leave work.'' Future Perfect Continuous Tense The structure of the Future Perfect Continuous Tense is:
To make a sentence negative, simply add ''not'' between ''will'' and ''have'' (''i.e.'', "... will not have ..."). To make it A Question , exchange the subject and auxiliary verb ''will'' (''i.e.'', "will we ...?"). The future perfect continuous tense is used to express a future on-going action with reference to some definite point in the future. ''I will have been waiting for two hours when her airplane arrives.'' "Will have been waiting" is the on-going action, the definite point in the future is "when her airplane arrives". FUTURE TENSE IN LATIN The future tense forms in Latin varied by conjugation. Here is a sample of the future tense for the first conjugation verb 'amare', 'to love'. amabo I will (shall) love amabis You (singular) will love amabit He, she, it will love amabimus We will love amabitis You (plural) will love amabunt They will love This method of producing the future tense in Latin was replaced in the Romance languages by another form using the infinitive plus an ending. FUTURE TENSE IN FRENCH ,'' the '' Futur Simple ,'' and the '' Futur Parfait ''. Futur simple The futur simple is made by simply taking the infinitive of the verb and adding the correct form of ''avoir'' (to have) to the end of the word. In the ''nous'' and ''vous'' form of the word, the ending is instead just ''-ons'' and ''-ez'', respectively. However, there are also some French verbs for which an irregular stem is used, such as ''aller'' (to go, futur simple stem = ir-) and ''etre'' (to be, futur simple stem = ser-). For instance: Je mange I eat Je mangerai I will eat Nous allons We go Nous irons We will go The futur simple usually refers to events that will happen further away in time than the futur proche. Future proche The future proche uses the correct present form of ''aller'' (to go) and then has the infinitive after: ''je mange, je vais manger'' = I eat, I will eat. Notice that the future proche, which resembles the Be-going To Future , actually translates as the Will future. Futur parfait Equivalent of English ''I will have {Link without Title} .'' Formed by using the future form of ''aller'' or ''être,'' plus the past participle. Examples: ''J'aurai fini'' = ''I will have finished'' ''Il aura mangé'' = ''He will have eaten'' ''Je serai parti'' = ''I will have left'' ''Il sera venu'' = ''He will have come'' FUTURE TENSE IN SPANISH In Spanish, there are three main tenses that describe the future: the futuro simple, '''futuro con "ir"''', and the '''futuro perfecto'''. Futuro Simple The futuro simple is formed by, excluding the irregular verbs (e.g. '''querer''', ''to want'', or '''salir''', ''to go out''), appending the following to the end of the Infinitive form of a verb: The English equivalent is " Will / Shall ''verb''." Irregular Stems of the Futuro Simple Irregular stems include: Note that these irregular stems are also used in the Conditional Tense . Futuro con "Ir" The futuro con "ir" is, as its name implies, formed by using the present form of ''' Ir ''', ''to go'', the preposition ''a'', and the infinitive form of the desired verb. Usually, this translates in English as "to be going to ''verb''." Futuro Perfecto The futuro perfecto is formed by using the simple future form of the verb ''' Haber ''', ''to have'', and the Past Participle of the desired verb. The English equivalent is " Will have ''past participle of verb''." See also: Past Tense , Present Tense , Grammatical Aspect . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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