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The correct tense for future plans in English

Make sure you use the correct tense when you talk about future plans in English. Here are some tips to do this, as well as other phrases to use when you talk about your plans with other people. (For more information about this, see our page on future forms.) When it isn’t definite We use […]

Future continuous

Form will be + present participle (-ing form of the verb) NOTE – There is no future tense in English. Instead, we use a variety of forms to talk about the future. WILL (in this case with be + present participle) is one of those forms. In many student grammars (and here!) this form is referred to as future continuous for […]

active verb forms

1- future, present, and past; simple, progressive and perfect English verbs can refer to future, present or past time, and for each kind of time, there are three possibilities with most verbs: simple, progressive (be + -ing) and perfect (have + past participle) simple present: I start present progressive: I am starting present perfect: I […]