Future Continuous

No Future in Time Clauses

IMPORTANT

Summary

Expression of willingness

Only the Future Simple (shall/will) is used to express willingness.

e.g. I’ ll help you as much as I can.

We often use shall/will in the following situations:

a) offering to do something

• I need some money. Don’t worry. I shall lend you some.

b) agreeing and refusing to do something

• I’ve asked John to help me but he won’t. The car won’tstart.

c) promising to do something

• I promise, I won’t tell Tom what you’ve just said.

d) asking someone to do something

• Will you shut the door, please?

• Be going to always indicates a link with the present.

a) present intentions/plans/preparations

b) present evidence of a future event.

• When we use shall/will, the emphasis is more on the future.
• Shall/will is more formal than be going to and is therefore used more extensively in written English.

In the Simple Future, it is not always clear which USE the speaker has in mind. Often, there is more than one way to interpret a sentence's meaning.

Like all future forms, the Simple Future cannot be used in clauses beginning with time expressions such as: when, while, before, after, by the time, as soon as, if, unless, etc. Instead of Simple Future, Simple Present is used.

Examples:

• When you will arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Not Correct
• When you arrive tonight, we will go out for dinner. Correct

Time expressions used with the Future Simple and Be Going to:

tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, tonight, soon, next week/month/year, in two/three days/weeks, etc.

FORM Future Continuous with "Will"

[will be + present participle]

Examples:

• You will be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.

In the interrogative form the auxiliary verb is placed before the subject. In the negative form the negative particle not is placed after the auxiliary verb

• Will you be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
• You will not be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.

FORM Future Continuous with "Be Going To "

[am/is/are + going to be + present participle]

• You are going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.
• Are you going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight?
• You are not going to be waiting for her when her plane arrives tonight.

REMEMBER: It is possible to use either "will" or "be going to" to create the Future Continuous with little difference in meaning.

USE 1 Actions in progress at a certain moment/ period of time in future

The Future Continuous is use to indicate an action in progress at a certain moment of time or during a certain period of time in the future

• Tonight at 6 PM, I will be eating dinner.
  I will be in the process of eating dinner.
• At midnight tonight, we will still be driving through the desert.
  We will be in the process of driving through the desert.
• From 10 till12 he will be writing his test paper

He will be in the process of writing.

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