Future with 'Going to' for beginners

future tenses going to

Anything after now is the future, and in English, we have many ways and tenses to talk about the future. Some are more basic and some are more advanced.

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Future with 'Going to' in English Grammar

What Is Future with 'Going to'?

'Be going to' is a structure that is used to refer to the plans and intentions in the future.

Structure

The structure to form a future tense uses be + going to + the base form of a main verb to talk about the future.

	Full Form	Short Form
I	am going to run.	'm going to run.
He/She/It	is going to run.	's going to run.
We/You/They	are going to run.	're going to run.

Using 'Going to' to Talk about Plans

Negation

To make a negative sentence with going to, you have to negate the verb 'to be'.

Affirmative	Negative	Short Form
I am going to run.	I'm not going to run.	-
She is going to travel.	She is not (isn't) going to travel.	She isn't going to travel.

Questions

To make a question in the future tense, you have to use the 'be verb' at the beginning of the sentence.

Statement	Question
I am going to run.	Are you going to run?
She is going to travel.	Is she going to travel?

Use

We can use going to in future tense to talk about:

Future predictions
Future plans

Those students are going to be graduated this year.

Here, it is used to talk about prediction.

He is going to go to Chicago next month.

Here, it is used to talk about future plans.

Past Perfect Continuous

This tense is an advanced tense, but it’s not hard to learn. This tense will allow you to talk about things that happened in the past in a more interesting way.

Future Perfect

The future perfect tense is an advanced tense; it will allow you to speak about the future in a really interesting way that may not exist in your own language.

Future Perfect Continuous

This is one of the most advanced tenses in the English language. So, congratulation on reaching this level. Let's start to learn this tense.

Past with 'Going to'

There are times that we are narrating a story and we want to talk about past plans that did not happen. In this case, we use past with going to.

Talking about the Present

When you talk, the verbs should agree with the orders of events. That's why We will learn how and when to use the present tense in this lesson.

Talking about the Past

What if we want to narrate something that happened in the past? In this case, we will need to know the past tense.

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