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    Future Tenses Mind Map

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    This document outlines different verbs used to discuss future events: 1) "Will" is used for predictions, promises, inevitable events, and snap decisions. It is also used with verbs of opinion. 2) The present continuous ("be + verb-ing") is used for future arrangements and planned actions involving people. 3) "Be going to" expresses intentions and predictions based on present evidence. It implies the action is planned or decided. 4) The simple present is used with timetables and fixed future events involving things rather than people.

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    This document outlines different verbs used to discuss future events: 1) "Will" is used for predictions, promises, inevitable events, and snap decisions. It is also used with verbs of opinion. 2) The present continuous ("be + verb-ing") is used for future arrangements and planned actions involving people. 3) "Be going to" expresses intentions and predictions based on present evidence. It implies the action is planned or decided. 4) The simple present is used with timetables and fixed future events involving things rather than people.

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    This document outlines different verbs used to discuss future events: 1) "Will" is used for predictions, promises, inevitable events, and snap decisions. It is also used with verbs of opinion. 2) The present continuous ("be + verb-ing") is used for future arrangements and planned actions involving people. 3) "Be going to" expresses intentions and predictions based on present evidence. It implies the action is planned or decided. 4) The simple present is used with timetables and fixed future events involving things rather than people.

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    Milena Rozo
    This document outlines different verbs used to discuss future events: 1) "Will" is used for predictions, promises, inevitable events, and snap decisions. It is also used with verbs of opinion. 2) The present continuous ("be + verb-ing") is used for future arrangements and planned actions involving people. 3) "Be going to" expresses intentions and predictions based on present evidence. It implies the action is planned or decided. 4) The simple present is used with timetables and fixed future events involving things rather than people.

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    VERBS USED IN THE FUTURE

    WILL

    PRESENT CONTINUOUS ( for PEOPLE)


    Future arrangements Planned actions
    Im not working in London next week.
    John is leaving on the midnight train.
    We are flying to New York tomorrow
    morning.
    When are you coming to visit us?
    What are you doing at the weekend ?
    Im meeting Mary at 6 oclock.
    They arent playing tennis this afternoon.

    Asking people to do something

    Promises

    TO BE GOING TO
    Peoples intentions

    Im going to watch TV.


    Im going to visit Italy sooner or later.
    Is she going to marry him? Yes, she is.

    Predictions based on the present

    Look at those
    clouds!
    going
    rain.
    am/is/are
    + going
    to + Its
    base
    form to
    verb
    The alarm clock didnt go off. Im going
    to be late.
    The sun is shining. Its going to be a

    avoid confusion with the present tense.

    I like the dress in the shop


    window. Ill buy it.

    Predictions
    It will rain in London,
    tomorrow morning.

    Inevitable

    Timetables and fixed future events


    What time does the train leave?
    It leaves at 10.15 a.m.
    When does school start?
    It doesnt start until September.
    Are the shops open tomorrow?
    Verb
    in They
    the simple
    Yes.
    open present
    at 9.00form
    and+close at
    adverb
    of
    future
    time
    when
    necessary
    to
    8.00 p.m.

    I will marry John. (even


    though my parents dont
    want me to)

    Snap decisions

    I promise I wont go
    without you.

    Resolutions

    SIMPLE PRESENT - (for THINGS)

    Will you help me to wash


    the car?

    Harry is 26. He will be 27


    next year in August.

    Volunteering to do something

    Will +hasnt
    base form
    of verb
    Mary
    arrived
    yet so
    Ill
    cook
    dinner.
    Negative: wont + base form of
    verb

    In sentences with verbs of opinion


    I think it will rain.
    I dont believe he will

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