Won't wait

Main uses

The Future Simple (Indefinite) is used to denote:

1. A predicted future action, a happening which is inevitable and out of
anybody's control

The population of the world will reach six billion people by 2000.

The weather tomorrow will be warm and sunny.

She '11 be here in a few minutes.

The company will make a profit next year. Reference to the future is often indicated by adverbials of time such as tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, in a week (month, year) next year, in 2000, etc.

2. An action which the speaker regards as possible, probable or likely to happen in future (near or remote).

I think they will easily win the match.

I'm sure you will enjoy your visit to the Zoo.

We'll probably spend out holiday in Scotland this summer.

I don't think Tom will pass his examination. He hasn 't done any work for it.

3. An action decided on spontaneously, out of circumstances (i.e. an action which is not part of a plan).

Oh, I've left the door open. I’ll go and shut it.

I 'm too tired to walk home. I think I'll take a taxi.

I'm afraid Mr Wood can't see you until 4 o 'clock. - Oh, in that case I

It's a bit cold in this room. - Is it? I'll turn on the heating then. Close to the given meaning is the use of the Future Simple in promises, offers, warnings (often in the principal clause of a complex conditional sentence).

I will lend you the money you need.

I won't tell anybody, I promise.

Mr Brown will pick you up at the airport.

Thank you for lending me the money. I'll pay you back on Friday.

If you eat too much of that curry, you'll get a stomach ache.

4. Enquiry for an instruction, recommendation, advice in interrogative
sentences (often in rheuthorical questions). These are addressed to the 1st
person singular or plural and take "shall".

Shall we do it orally?

What shall I do now?

Shall 1 send you a fax? Sometimes questions with "shall" are asked to offer help.

Shall I help you?

Shall I carry your bag?

Shall I water the roses now? Interrogative requests, instructions, warnings addressed to the 2nd person take "will".

Will you be quiet, please?

Will you get me a paper while you're out?

Note: 1) The Future Simple in the negative form can be used to talk about refusals, resistance or reluctance, to do something.

The door won't open.

Thepen won't write.

5. "will/shall be able to", "will/shall have to" are used to replace the modal verbs "can" and "must" in the future.

One day we will be able to live without wars.

I think I will be able to speak English quite well in a few months.

When you leave school you'll have to find a job.

6. will/'ll is used for typical behaviour

She'll sit talking to herself for hours.

I'm always asking him to come but he won't

As compared to the Present Simple for habitual actions, the Future Simple adds a note of greater certainty to an utterance and is more frequently used in conversational speech.

She is a very hard-working student and attends classes regularly.

She is a very hard-working student in general but sometimes she will skip alecture or two.

7. In Indirect Speech the Future Simple Tense is replaced by the Future in the Past (according to the rules of sequence of tenses).

The adverbials of future time tomorrow, next week, etc. are replaced by the next day, the next week, etc.

They said they would win the match the next week.

She informed us she would deliver the lecture the next month.

The thief said he would hit me unless I told him where the money was.

She wondered if she would go to college if she got good grades in her exams.

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