Future with 'Going to'

For beginners

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.

Future with 'Going to' in English Grammar

What Is Future with 'Going to'?

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

Structure

To talk about future using this structure, 'to be' verb + 'going to' is used before the base form of the main verb. For example:

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

Using 'Going to' to Talk about Plans

Negation

To make a negative sentence with going to, the verb 'to be' is negated by adding 'not' after it.

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

Questions

To make a question using this structure, the 'to be verb' is placed at the beginning of the sentence followed by the subject and then 'going to' + the base form of verb. Here are some examples:

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 'be going to' in the future tense to talk about:

Future predictions
Future plans

Those students are going to graduate 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.

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What Is Future with 'Going to'?
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