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farther.Future tense. Verbs indicate the time of the action they represent
by changing form to reflect tense, including action in the future This explanation will become clear in time Inmost cases the future is signaled by the appearance of the
auxiliary verbs
“will” or
“shall”: Shall we dance Shall is not very common in American usage except in questions like the example just given or in other cases when you want to add
emphasis to your writing We shall overcome Willis correct
in all other instances for standard English, although
British English preserves a distinction in using
“shall” and will that
should be explored in British grammar books by those who will be writing for strictly British
audiences.Adding other auxiliaries to simple future tenses creates other tenses. Adding
gerunds (“ing” forms) to will be creates a tense called future progressive, used to depict action sustained or ongoing in the future I will be going to France I will be staying there six months This tense suggests continuing future action or existence.
Combining past
participles (ed forms) with will have
produces the future perfect, representing actions conceived as completed in the future I will have lived in France for the whole summer.”
Finally, gerunds and will have been go together to make the future perfect progressive, for actions that end in the future but have some ongoing sense to them:
“I will have been traveling to France for four years Again, there is a notion of continuation
conveyed by this tense, as there is with future progressive.
Each of these combinations is a form of emphasis because it calls attention to a kind of action that has unusual conditions and verb forms attached to it. The names of these tenses are less important than recognizing the utility of the forms made from the future tense.
