GRAMMAR FUTURE STRUCTURES

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GRAMMAR FUTURE STRUCTURES

BE GOINT TO

¿Voy a comprar galletas en el supermercado?

My brother is not visiting us tomorrow .

I'm going to visit my uncles next Sunday

STRUTURES

INTERROGATIVE: To be+subject+going to+Complement

NEGATIVE: Subject+to be+not going to+principal verb+Complement

AFFIRMATIVE:Subject+ to be +auxiliary+principal verb+Complement

Be going to is a verb tense that is used when you want to express intention, certainty or the immediate future. verb to go.

Express a prediction based on present evidence

Express that something is about to happen

Express future plans decided before the moment of speaking

FUTURE SIMPLE

EXAMPLE

will you want to go a walk?.

I won't not bathe

I will buy some shoes

NEGATIVE

Subject+won't+basic form verb+ complement

INTERROGATIVE

Will+Subject+basic form verb+complement?

AFFIRMATVE

Subject+will+basic form verb+ complement

Threat

Promise

Refusal

Ofter

Predictions

Spontaneous Decisions

The future simple is used to describe actions that will take place in the future, without the need to specify when.

FUTURE CONTINUOS

¿Will They be playing basketball?

I will not dance in the contest tomorrow

She will be watching TV, and he will be cooking dinner

STRUCTURE

INTERROGATIVE: Will+subject+be+verb+ing+Complement.

NEGATIVE:Subject+will+not+be+verb+ ing+Complement

AFFIRMATIVE:Subject+will+be+verb+ing+Complement

To express parallel actions or series of parallel actions in the future.

To emphasis of future plans and intentions

To ask question politelyabout the future.

To express actions in progress at a specific time in the future

To refer to actions that are happening now and expected to continue in the future.

To describe interrupted actions in the future.

It expresses an action that will take place in the future and will continue to develop for a specified period of time.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE-FUTURE

EXAMPLES

¿Is she travelling to new york?

He is not watching TV this morning

STRUCTURES

INTERROGATIVE:Be+Subject+going to+verb+Complement

NEGATIVE:Subject+be+not+verb+ing+Complement

AFFIRMATIVE: Subject+be+verb+ing+Complement

USES

To talk about things which you are about to start doing

Sometimes the arrangement is between a person and a group of the people,or arganisation or company.

A future arrangement is a plan that you have decided and organised with another person

DEFINITIONS

Future Progressive is a form of the verb that shows that the action will be in progress at a given time, or at some given period, in the future.