{"id":109,"date":"2019-04-25T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/zyle\/?p=109"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:11","slug":"future-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/verb-tenses\/future-continuous.htm","title":{"rendered":"Future Continuous – English grammar courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Future Continuous tense is relevant to actions that are not finished and will be continuing on into the future. Specifically, it can be used for talking about what we will be doing into the future or to guess about the future. It has two different forms: \u201cwill be doing \u201d and\u00a0 \u201cgoing to be doing\u201d. The form of this tense is Subject + Will be + Infinitive + Ing or<\/strong> Subject + To be + going to be + Infinitive + Ing.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s take a look at some examples:<\/p>\n

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First person<\/td>\nNotes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I will be reading a book.<\/td>\nThese are actions that we believe will be continuing into the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tonight, we are going to be eating dinner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By 9 pm, we will be eating dinner.<\/td>\nThese are guesses about what will be happening in the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By next year, I will be studying economics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The difference between \u201cwill be doing \u201d and\u00a0 \u201cgoing to be doing\u201d is simple. \u201cWill be doing\u201d that you will start an action at a specific time or place. \u201cGoing to be doing\u201d means that you will be in the process of doing that action. Let\u2019s look at a clear difference in the following two sentences:<\/p>\n

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I will be walking home at 5 pm.<\/p>\n

I am going to be walking home at 5 pm.<\/p>\n

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In the first sentence, I will be walking home at 5 pm, our character means he start <\/strong>walking at <\/strong>5 pm. In the second sentence, I am going to be walking home at 5 pm, he means he will be <\/strong>walking by <\/strong>5 pm.<\/p>\n

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You can ask questions with the future continuous tense by using \u201cwill\u201d for all the pronouns. For example: Will he be coming? Will they be coming?<\/p>\n

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You can add \u201cnot\u201d after the pronoun after \u201cwill\u201d to make a negative statement. For example: Will they not be coming? Will she not be working?<\/p>\n

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You can abbreviate \u201cwill not\u201d to \u201cwon\u2019t\u201d. For example: Won\u2019t he be coming?<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Place the appropriate future continuous word in the gaps and make sure to include \u201cwill\u201d and \u201cgoing to\u201d: go, feel, attend, plant, compete, celebrate, travel, backpack, run, work, learn, study.<\/p>\n

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  1. I ________ History in France for the next 2 years.<\/li>\n
  2. He __________ to the gym every day from now on.<\/li>\n
  3. She __________ a seminar on science tomorrow.<\/li>\n
  4. Lisa __________ her birthday on Saturday.<\/li>\n
  5. Johnny __________ to Poland in the summer.<\/li>\n
  6. I ___________ across South East Asia for 3 months.<\/li>\n
  7. In a few months, I __________ in a very important competition.<\/li>\n
  8. She ___________ roses in her garden.<\/li>\n
  9. I think I _________ in the next marathon.<\/li>\n
  10. We have been working together for months now and I think we ___________\u00a0 together for the long term.<\/li>\n
  11. I don\u2019t think I ___________ well I eat that much.<\/li>\n
  12. I ____________ how to a ride a horse from next week onward.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Future Continuous tense is relevant to actions that are not finished and will be continuing on into the future. Specifically, it can be used for talking about what we will be doing into the future or to guess about the future. It has two different forms: \u201cwill be doing \u201d and\u00a0 \u201cgoing to be … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verb-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}