Using Future Continuous Tense

The future continuous tense looks like this: shall/will+be+verbing
The future continuous tense is used to indicate an action that will happen in the near future, and when that future time comes, that action will be in progress. Read this situation.

You will visit your friend, David, tomorrow morning. So you make an appointment with David that you will drop by at his house at 9 am tomorrow. Your friend, David, tells you he wants to wash his car tomorrow morning. Therefore, David can use the future continuous tense in his sentence like this: I shall be washing my car tomorrow morning when you come to my house. This sentence means when you reach David's house, you will see him washing his car.

Note that the future continuous tense is more or less the same as the simple future tense as both tenses indicate future actions. However, they do not really convey the same idea. Read these 2 examples.

They will move into their new house next month. (simple future tense)
They will be moving into their new house next month. (future continuous tense)

Both sentences 1 and 2 indicate future actions. However, sentence 1 sounds more like the informative type. It informs rather than indicates the "moving house" action. Sentence 2 conveys the idea that the "moving house" action will be in progress next month.

The future continuous tense in negative sentences looks like this: shall/will + not + be + verbing.
Example sentences:
We shall not be watching TV tonight.
Tony will not (won't) be using his computer for the whole of next week.
Mr Peterson will not be coming to the office next month.

Click on "References" to view other tenses.

By Susan L
On 12/13/2009 05:42:00 AM
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