- •Unit 5.
- •Study the uses of the Future Indefinite Tense given below. State which of the uses is applied to each of the following sentences.
- •The Future Indefinite is used to describe facts in the future. The future reference can be clear or indicated with the help of the sentence adverbs, such as:
- •Interrogative:
- •Interrogative:
- •Study different means of expressing future.
Unit 5.
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Affirmative: I,
you, he, she, it, we, they + will
+V. I
shall
/ will
phone you in the evening.
It
will
take
them about ten minutes to finish the talks. He
will
stay with us till Thursday.
Negative: I,
we + shan’t
/
won’t
+ V. You,
he, she, it, they +
won’t
+V. We
shan’t
/
won’t
regret about it. Don’t
be afraid. The criminal won’t
escape.
Interrogative: Shall
/
Will
+ I, we + V? Will
+ you, he, she, it, they + V? Shall
we come to this wonderful place next year? What
language will
you
use in your report?
The Future Indefinite Tense.
Exercise 5.1.
Study the uses of the Future Indefinite Tense given below. State which of the uses is applied to each of the following sentences.
The Future Indefinite is used to describe facts in the future. The future reference can be clear or indicated with the help of the sentence adverbs, such as:
tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, on Sunday, in a week \ month \ year, next Monday \ week \ month \ year etc.
To describe habitual actions in the future.
To describe a succession of future actions.
To express an action, the decision to perform which was taken at the moment of speaking (usually in conversation).
With verbs which are not used in the continuous tenses (sense, physical or mental perception, of possession etc.).
To express formal (planned) announcements of future plans, weather forecasts.
General prediction (a definite opinion about the future).
To express willingness or refusal to perform an action.
NOTE:
The
Future Indefinite is not regularly used in subordinate clauses of
time and condition. The Present Indefinite is used instead. Ex.:
If it is
sunny tomorrow, I will take you for a walk to the central park. Care should be taken: Conjunctions “when”, “whether” and “if”
are also used in objective subordinate clauses, where there are no
restrictions in the use of tenses.
Compare the two sentences: I don’t know (what?) if Jim will
phone me tomorrow. (objective clause) I will tell Jim the news (on what condition?)
if he phones me tomorrow. (conditional
clause)
Where are you going? – To the market. Ann and I want to buy a cat. – It must be interesting! I have never been at there. Well, I shall go there with you.
Don’t take Pamela’s handbag! She won’t like it.
Agnes will be 18 the day after tomorrow.
Agnes will be 18 the day after tomorrow and she will receive her passport soon.
She will receive a lot of letters one of these days.
They will buy a house with a large garden in the country and grow apples in it.
Val will study Chinese next term.
The President of the company will open a new supermarket in Leeds tomorrow.
Ask John if he will take his camera with him.
I think he will try his best to finish the task.
We don’t know whether Andriy Shevchenko will play for the Milan next year.
He will be in hospital for at least a month.
I will stay here. I won’t stay here.
During our Phonetic class tomorrow we will listen to a new record and will be transcribing the words we will hear.
The recorder won’t start.