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Future Tense is one of the most complex areas of the English language. There are so many different tenses and ideas can be used with future meanings. The seven most common are as follows: The simple future is used to express: promises, predictions It will rain tomorrow. habits, routine The alarm will sound when you open the door. The meeting starts at noon. The future continuous tense, sometimes also referred to as the future progressive tense, is a verb tense that indicates that something will occur in the future and continue for an expected length of time. It is formed using the construction will + be + the present participle (the root verb + -ing). At five o’clock, I will be meeting with the management about my raise. The future perfect continuous, also sometimes called the future perfect progressive, is a verb tense that describes actions that will continue up until a point in the future. The future perfect continuous consists of will + have + been + the verb’s present participle (verb root + -ing). When we describe an action in the future perfect continuous tense, we are projecting ourselves forward in time and looking back at the duration of that activity. The activity will have begun sometime in the past, present, or in the future, and is expected to continue in the future. In Jnauary, I will have been working at my company for two years. The future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ form) and the future perfect (will have + past participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future. Future continuous Don’t ring at 8 o’clock. I’ll be watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire. This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait! We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future. Don’t phone grandma now, she’ll be having dinner. The kids are very quiet. They’ll be doing something wrong, I know it! These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about what we assume is happening at the moment. Future Perfect Do you think you will have finished it by next Thursday? In 5 years time I’ll have finished university and I’ll be able to earn some money at last. We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future. We often use the future perfect with ‘by’ or ‘in’ I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2020. I’ll have finished in an hour and then you can use the computer. ‘By’ means ‘not later than a particular time’ and ‘in’ means 'within a period of time’. We don’t know exactly when something will finish. I promise I’ll have done all the work by next Saturday. We don’t know exactly when he will finish the work – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday – but definitely before Saturday. We often use the present form am/are/is/ going to + infinitive to talk about the future. What are you going to do on Sunday? It is going to snow. Generally speaking, the "going to +infinitive" construction often used to talk about future events that have already been decided or predicted. 1) It expresses an intention or plan: I’m going to work this evening. It may have additional meanings of strong resolution or determination: I’m going to keep asking her out until she says yes. You are going to regret it. He’s going to suffer for this! 2) We use this construction when we predict: I think it’s going to rain this evening. Sometimes we use "going to" when we say that something is going to happen because we can see it coming (we have "present evidence for the future"). The flowers are going to wither. The simple present is a verb tense with two main uses. We use the simple present tense when an action is happening right now, or when it happens regularly (or unceasingly, which is why it’s sometimes called present indefinite). Depending on the person, the simple present tense is formed by using the root form or by adding ?s or ?es to the end. I feel good! Paul loves pizza. The other is to talk about habitual actions or occurrences. Paul practices the guitar every day. The present continuous verb tense indicates that an action or condition is happening now, frequently, and may continue into the future. The Present Continuous Formula: to be [am, is, are] + verb [present participle] Annie is warming up the car while Sam looks for his new pink purse.