future tense
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- noun
- /ˈfjuːtʃər tɛns/
- Specialized
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tiempo futuro
- The activities must be stated in the future tense.
Examples
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No need to use the future tense here, Anthony.
Blog text (2) -
Now, you say you know what time it is, but in the future tense, you know what time it will be.
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People "will come" in the future tense.
Blog text (18) -
We speak in the future tense, our sentences tagged with the word someday.
Fiction book (1996) -
In the first clip, he uses the future tense of "would" like he's the challenger.
Blog text (11) -
If the messages were written in future tense (e.g., We will beat you today!), they were coded as being posted prior to the game.
Academic text (2001) -
In English class, we learned how to form the future tense by adding "will" to the base form of the verb.
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To express your intentions clearly, you should use the future tense in your sentences.
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When planning a vacation, it helps to use the future tense to describe what activities you will do.
Synonyms
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1.0
The verb tense used to talk about actions that will happen later
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'future' (time after now) + 'tense' (grammatical time category), so a learner who knows both words can infer it denotes the verb form for actions after the present. This is a standard, compositional grammatical term found across many languages, making it immediately transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Future tense joins future, meaning time to come, and tense, a verb form that shows time. Imagine a clock pointing forward and the word 'will' showing something will happen later, so it means 'a verb form used to talk about actions that will happen after now'.