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Rules-Future Continuous

The document discusses the future continuous tense. It indicates that an action will be ongoing or continuous over a period of time in the future. Examples are given such as "Tomorrow, I will be grading final exams all day." The document also outlines common uses of the future continuous tense, such as to emphasize an action occurring over time rather than as a single instance, to compare the present and future, and to describe multiple overlapping future events. Stative verbs like "like" are generally not used in the future continuous tense.

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Rules-Future Continuous

The document discusses the future continuous tense. It indicates that an action will be ongoing or continuous over a period of time in the future. Examples are given such as "Tomorrow, I will be grading final exams all day." The document also outlines common uses of the future continuous tense, such as to emphasize an action occurring over time rather than as a single instance, to compare the present and future, and to describe multiple overlapping future events. Stative verbs like "like" are generally not used in the future continuous tense.

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What is future continuous tense?

The future continuous tense indicates that an action or state is going to


happen in the future. This tense also indicates that a future action or state will
be continuous, meaning that it will happen over a period of time.
For example, the sentence:
Tomorrow, I will be grading final exams all day. -- expresses the thought
that you will be spending a while grading those exams.

When do you use future continuous


There are several common ways to use the future continuous tense:

1. The main reason to use the future continuous tense is to point out that a
future action will take place over a length of time and won’t happen all at once.
This is the biggest reason we would use it over the simple future tense. Read
the following two sentences and see if you notice a slight difference in their
meaning.
 Tomorrow night, the fireworks will shoot into the sky. (future simple)
 Tomorrow night, the fireworks will be shooting into the sky.

It is a slight difference, but the second sentence suggests that the fireworks
will be exploding for a while, whereas the first sentence suggests there will be
only one instance of fireworks going off.

Typically, we use adverbs or adverbial phrases to clarify that an action or


state is occurring over a period of time:
 On Monday, we will be hunting ducks all morning.
 I will be shopping for tuxedos for several hours.

2. Another common reason we use the future continuous tense is to make


comparisons between the present and the future:
 I may be broke now, but I will be living the good life when I win the
lottery.
 By this time next week, I will be surfing in California.
3. We can also use the future continuous tense to say that more than one
future event will be happening at the same time:
 When the clock strikes midnight, we will be dancing in the streets.
 I can’t help you move tomorrow because I will be babysitting my
cousins.

An important thing to remember about the future continuous tense is that, in


general, we don’t typically use it with stative verbs. Stative verbs (such
as like, want, or believe) express states or conditions, so it would typically be
odd to use them in the future continuous tense. Instead, we commonly use the
simple future tense with stative verbs.

Incorrect: I will be being sad tomorrow after my sister leaves.

Correct: I will be sad tomorrow after my sister leaves.

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