{"id":73888,"date":"2020-04-08T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73888"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:10:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:10:40","slug":"future-continuous-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/future-continuous-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Continuous Tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will learn about the future continuous tense in this essay.<\/p>\n<p>Form: <strong>will \/ shall + be + ing form<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Affirmative\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I shall\/will be writing.<br \/>\nShe will be writing.<br \/>\nYou will be writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Negative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I shall\/will not be writing.<br \/>\nShe will not be writing.<br \/>\nYou will not be writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interrogative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shall\/will I be writing?<br \/>\nWill she be writing?<br \/>\nWill you be writing?<\/p>\n<h3>\nUses of the future continuous use<\/h3>\n<p>We use the <strong>future continuous tense<\/strong> to say that an activity will be in progress at a particular moment in the future.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This time tomorrow I <strong>will be lying<\/strong> on the beach.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The future progressive is also used to talk about future events which are fixed or arranged. It does not suggest the idea of personal intention.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We <strong>shall be visiting<\/strong> Darjeeling in the summer.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>will be seeing<\/strong> you one of these days, I think.<\/li>\n<li>He <strong>will be having<\/strong> a nap in the afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>The students will be preparing for their exam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Predicting the present<\/h3>\n<p>The future continuous can also be used to say what we think or guess is probably happening now.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t phone now \u2013 they will be having lunch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>To make polite enquiries<\/h3>\n<p>The future continuous can be used to make polite enquiries about people&#8217;s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will you be coming with me? (a polite enquiry about what has been arranged)<\/li>\n<li>Are you coming with me? (pressing for a decision)<\/li>\n<li>Will you come with me? (an instruction or order.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>See also<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/future-perfect-tense\/\">Future perfect tense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will learn about the future continuous tense in this essay. Form: will \/ shall + be + ing form Affirmative\u00a0 I shall\/will be writing. She will be writing. You will be writing. Negative&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2590,2589,2588,2591,344],"class_list":["post-73888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-continuous-tense","tag-future-continuous","tag-future-continuous-tense","tag-future-tenses","tag-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73889,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73888\/revisions\/73889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}