Future Tense

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Select the verb in the future tense:

A. will run
What Is the Future Tense?
The future tense is a verb tense used for a future activity or a future state of being. For B. ran
example:
C. was running
I will jump in the lake.
(This is a future activity.)
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I will be happy.
Select the verb in the future tense:
(This is a future state of being.)

A. was dancing
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B. will dance
The Four Future Tenses Explained
C. would have danced
Simple Future Tense

Examples of the Simple Future Tense

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Future Progressive Tense

Select the verb in the future tense:
Examples of the Future Progressive Tense
A. wait!
Future Perfect Tense

Examples of the Future Perfect Tense B. will have waited

Future Perfect Progressive Tense

C. waited

Examples of the Future Perfect Progressive Tense

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Interactive Verb Conjugation Tables
Select the one with an example of the future

Video Lesson perfect tense.

A. He does karate.

B. Next summer, he will have been

competing for 10 years.

C. He's been a black belt for 3 years.

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Select the simple future tense:

A. will have jumped

B. was jumping
 C. will jump

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Select the future perfect tense:

A. caught

B. will have caught

C. will be catching

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Select the future progressive tense:

A. was taken

B. will be taking

C. will have been taken

The Four Future Tenses Explained

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The future tense is categorized further depending on whether the action will be in
progress or will be completed (called the aspect of a verb). The four future tenses are: Select the future perfect progressive tense:

A. will have gone

The 4 Future
Examples Uses
Tenses
B. will go

simple future I will go. The simple future tense is used

C. will have been going
tense for an action that will occur in the
We will celebrate our
future.
anniversary by flying to
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New York.
Select the simple future tense:
future I will be going. The future progressive tense is
A. will have played
progressive used for an ongoing action that
The Moscow State
tense will occur in the future.
Circus will be performing B. will play
in Cheltenham for the
next 3 weeks. C. will have been playing

future perfect I will have gone. The future perfect tense is used
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tense to describe an action that will
By the time you arrive,
have been completed at some Select the simple future tense:
we will have finished the
point in the future.
meal and the speeches. A. I will forget if I don't write it down.

future perfect I will have been going. The future perfect progressive B. I forgot because I couldn't write it down.
progressive tense is used for an ongoing
In July next year, you will
action that will be completed at C. Can you write that down for me in case I
have been studying for
some specified time in the forget?
three years.
future.

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Simple Future Tense Select the one with an example of the future

Here is an infographic summarizing the simple future tense. perfect tense.

 A. I will have seen the film by Thursday.

B. I will be seeing the film on Thursday.

C. I will see the film on Thursday.

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Select the one with an example of the future

progressive tense.

A. She will be missed.

B. He will be missing her.

Examples of the Simple Future Tense 13 not attempted

Select the sentence that contains the future

"will" + [base form of the verb]
perfect tense:

A. Love one another and you will be happy.

I will play after breakfast.
It's as simple and as difficult as that.
(Michael Leunig)
Susan will not go to Germany.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Greek biographer Plutarch) B. I hope I will have achieved something
lasting.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Author Og
Mandino)
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Physicist
Select the future progressive tense:
Albert Einstein)
A. Be nice to the young. They are the ones
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get who will be writing about you.
used to the idea. (Robert A Heinlein)
B. If you're not nice to journalists, they will
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
write about you.
friends. (Activist Martin Luther King Jr)

C. By then, they will have written about me.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
(Chinese philosophe Confucius)
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obligation.)
Select the future perfect progressive tense:

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his
A. The students will be writing about you.
hand in the drill. (Producer Johnny Carson)
(Remember that won't is a contraction of will not and is often used to form the B. They will write about you.
simple future tense.
C. They will have been writing about you for
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. (Singer Freddie Mercury)
a year.

Read more about the simple future tense.

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Future Progressive Tense They will be spending is an example of which

Here is an infographic summarizing the future progressive tense. tense?

A. the simple future tense

B. the future progressive tense

 C. the future perfect progressive tense

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Select the verb in the future perfect progressive

tense.

She will have been driving for twelve hours

by the time she hits the Spanish border .

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Select the one with an example of the simple

future tense:

A. Never explain. Your friends do not need it,

and your enemies will not believe you
Examples of the Future Progressive Tense anyway.

B. We must believe in free will, we have no

"will be" + [present participle]
choice. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)

I will be playing for an hour.

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Will I be spending too much money if I buy the newer model?

He will be fighting his way to the boxing championship.

Always be nice to those younger than you because they are the ones who will be
writing about you.

In September, we will be enjoying all the fruit we planted last March.

Those who are laughing now will be crying later.

Soon I will be doing what I love again. (Guitarist Vinnie Vincent)

I'll be performing at 80 years old. Music is like fashion - it changes. But some
things will always be the same. (Singer Toni Braxton)
(Remember that I'll is a contraction of I will.)

Every breath you take. Every move you make. Every bond you break. Every step
you take, I'll be watching you. (Singer Sting)

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.

(She'll is a contraction of she will.)

She'll be riding six white horses when she comes.

The next time you see a spider's web, please pause and look a little closer. You'll
be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man. (Biologist
Cheryl Hayashi)
(You'll is a contraction of you will.)

In my case, there's no revolving door. I won't be going back to government.

(Politician Mary Schapiro)
(Won't is a contraction of will not.)

Read more about the future progressive tense.

Future Perfect Tense
Here is an infographic summarizing the future perfect tense.

Examples of the Future Perfect Tense

"will have" + [past participle]

I will have played by breakfast.

By September, Jenny will have taken over that role.

Will you have graduated by this time next year?

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive
way. (Actor Will Rothhaar)

The rain will not have stopped before the competition starts.

You won't have sold a single car by tomorrow if you stay here.
(Won't is a contraction of will not.)

Read more about the future perfect tense.

Future Perfect Progressive Tense

Here is an infographic summarizing the future perfect progressive tense.
Examples of the Future Perfect Progressive Tense

"will have been" + [present participle]

I will have been playing for 2 hours by breakfast.

By the time the boat arrives, they will have been living without proper food for two
weeks.

Shops that will have been running for three or two years by then will have to close
down.

They will have been driving for ten hours by the time they arrive in Scotland.

If it rains again tomorrow, then it will have been raining for three days.

He will be agitated when he arrives because he will have been working for ten
hours.

When you are promoted next year, how long will you have been working on the
factory floor?

You will not have been waiting for over an hour when the taxi arrives. That's not
true.

Read more about the future perfect progressive tense.

Interactive Verb Conjugation Tables

The tables below show all 12 tenses so you can see the past progressive tense
among the other tenses. (You can change the verb by clicking one of the green buttons.)

Top 10 Regular Verbs

Top 10 Irregular Verbs

All 4 Past Tenses

Past Perfect
Person Simple Past Past Progressive Tense Past Perfect Tense
Progressive Tense
 I saw was seeing had seen had been seeing

you saw were seeing had seen had been seeing

he/she/it saw was seeing had seen had been seeing

we saw were seeing had seen had been seeing

you saw were seeing had seen had been seeing

they saw were seeing had seen had been seeing

The simple past tense The past progressive tense is for an The past perfect tense is for The past perfect progressive
is for a completed ongoing activity in the past. Often, it emphasizing that an action tense is for showing that an
activity that happened is used to set the scene for another was completed before ongoing action in the past has
in the past. action. another took place. ended.

All 4 Present Tenses

Simple Present Present Perfect Progressive

Person Present Perfect Tense
Present Progressive Tense Tense

I see am seeing have seen have been seeing

you see are seeing have seen have been seeing

he/she/it sees is seeing has seen has been seeing

we see are seeing have seen have been seeing

you see are seeing have seen have been seeing

they see are seeing have seen have been seeing

The simple present The present progressive The present perfect tense is for The present perfect progressive tense is for
tense is mostly for a tense is for an ongoing an action that began in the a continuous activity that began in the past
fact or a habit. action in the present. past. (Often, the action and continues into the present (or finished
continues into the present.) very recently).

All 4 Future Tenses

Future Progressive Future Perfect Progressive

Person Simple Future Future Perfect Tense
Tense Tense

I will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

you will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

he/she/it will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

we will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

you will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

they will see will be seeing will have seen will have been seeing

The simple future The future progressive tense is The future perfect tense is for The future perfect progressive tense is
tense is for an action for an ongoing action that will an action that will have been for an ongoing action that will be
that will occur in the occur in the future. completed at some point in completed at some specified time in the
future. the future. future.

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by Craig Shrives.