Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Future Continuous Tense - With Examples - Spoken English At Home

Future Continuous

Future Continuous Tense is formed with will/ shall and 'be' plus present participle.

Affirmative Statements                                Negative Statements


I will be writing.                                             I will not be writing.


Affirmative Questions                                 Negative Questions  

Will you be writing ?                                             Will you not be writing ? 

The Future Continuous Tense is used: 

i) To refer to an action as continuous at some time in the future.


Ex: We will be paying tennis at that time.
       She will be sleeping, when we go there.

ii) To describe an action that is fairly certain to happen in the future.

Ex:  I will be seeing them. I will be waiting for you outside.
        He will be staying at office tomorrow.