Future Continuous for intermediate learners

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The future continuous tense is used by native English speakers quite often and this is your chance to learn and understand this tense so you can start using it.

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"Future Continuous" Tense in English Grammar

What Is Future Continuous Tense?

The future continuous tense is used to indicate an action that will be ongoing in the future.

Structure

The future continuous tense is formed with 'will + be + -ing form of the verb.'

She will be cooking dinner.

They will be hanging out at a bar.

Using Future Continuous to Talk about Ongoing Actions in the Future

Negative Form

We can easily use this tense in negative sentences using 'not'. The short form of 'will + not' is 'won't'. Look:

Hannah will not be washing the dishes tonight.

I'm sorry but I won't be writing to you.

Question Form

We can easily use this tense in questions by simply changing the places of the subject and the modal verb. Look:

Will she be cooking dinner?

Will you be singing to me then?

Use

The future continuous tense denotes that something will happen in the future and continue for an expected period of time in the future.

At 8 o'clock, I will be watching the game.

She will be running the marathon this summer.

Future Simple

The best way to predict the future is to create it. In this lesson, you will learn to talk about the future in English using 'will.'

Present Continuous

The present continuous tense is a basic tense. It is usually one of the first tenses you start to learn when you first start studying English.

Past Continuous

The past continuous tense is used quite often in English, so let’s understand exactly when to use it and how to use it. Are you ready? Let's begin.

Present Perfect

Present perfect is a useful tense that talks about an action that happened in an indefinite time in the past. In this lesson, we will learn more about them.

Present Perfect Continuous

The present perfect continuous tense is a useful tense in English grammar. Why? Because it connects the present and the past. Let's see how.

Past Perfect

This tense is an advance tense and we use it to talk about the past in a lot of interesting ways, and you’ll see what they are. So are you ready? Let’s start.

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