FUTURITY Flashcards
Will
(known as the predictive future)
Modal verb
Expresses: voluntary actions, predictions, promises, offers, spontaneous decisions.
Example: ‘‘I will go home tomorrow.’’
Going to (”Near Future”)
Planned, intended actions, prior intentions.
Present Continuous:
- planned or arranged future actions or events.
Example: ‘‘They are meeting at 5 PM tomorrow.’’
Present Simple:
Expresses scheduled events, timetables, and fixed future arrangements.
Example: “The train leaves at 8 AM tomorrow.”
Future with ‘‘shall’’
Modal verb. Mostly used in formal or British English to express offers, suggestions, or intentions. Shall is only used for future time reference with I and we, and is more formal than will.
Example: ‘‘Shall I help you with your bags?’’
Modal verbs (can, may, might):
Expresses possibility, permission, or uncertainty about future actions or events. Example: ‘‘I may visit my grandparents next month.’’
Adverbs:
Adverbs such as soon, tomorrow, next week, in the future, etc., can be used to indicate futurity.
Example: ‘‘I will finish the report soon.’’
Future Continuous
Future activity/ state that will begin before and will continue after a certain moment in future: ”This time timorrow we shall/will be watching TV”.
An activity/state will extend over a whole future period: ”Lucy will be writing letters all day long”.
Future Perfect Simple (Shall/Will + Have + Past Participle)
An action which will be finished before a certain moment or another acction in the future: ”It is 9 o’clock. I am sure my sister will have written her composition by 11 o’clock”).
Duration up to a certain time in the future: “Tomorrow we shall have been on holiday for one motnh”).
Future Perfect Continuous (shall/will + Have + Been + Present Participle).
the duration of an action up to a certain moment in the future: “At 6 o’clock your sister will have been sleeping for two hours”.
The Future-in-the-Past Simple (Should/Would + Short Infinitive)
a future action/state seen from a viewpoint in the past: “She told me that she would go there soon”.
Present Perfect
future action that will take place before another future action: “The children will play in the garden after they have finished their homework”.
Past Tense
future action simultaneous with another action expressed by a Future-in-the-Past: “I was sure they would like this book when they understood it”.
Past Perfect
future action that will take place before another action expressed by a Future-in-the-Past: “My friend explained to his parents that he would go on a trip abroad after he had passed his exams”.
To Be To
- AN official plan or arrangement>
“The President was to arrive at 10 o’clock”.
-Sth destined to happen
“The famous tennis player began the match in which he was to break his arm”
To be about
STH that will happen in the immediate future
“Our guests are about to leave”. (sunt pe cale sa…)
May/Might
express permission in present or future
