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Going to future
- Intention
- Prediction based on present
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Will future
- Weather forecast
- Decision is made at the time of speaking
- statement of fact
- Formal announcement
- Suggestions, advice, instructions
- Prediction about the future
- Hope, expectations, thoughts
- Clauses
- Willingness
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Present simple as future
- Clauses
- Everything, anythng, whatever
- fixed timetable
- USE
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Present continuous as future
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Personal arrangements
- A future time reference must be stated
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Future continuous
- Describe an activity at a point in future
- Describe an activity that will cover whole time period
- Future event without expressing deliberate intention
- What we assume someone else is doing at this moment
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Other ways
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BE DUE TO / ABOUT TO / ON THE POINT OF
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Be due to
- arrangements that are to take place at a fixed time
- Timetables
- official itineraries
- USE
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About to
- That will happed very soon
- immediate future
- USE
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On the point of
- Very immediate future
- USE
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BE TO
- formal plans
- official arrangements
- instructions
- prohibitions
- USE
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VERB+TO-INF.
- plan
- intend
- are proposing
- hope
- have agreed
- have promiseed
- VERBS
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Future perfect
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Simple
- describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before another event in the future.
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Continuous
- Something that will have been happening up to a future point in time