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Make predictions:
e.g. Restaurants will print food.
Talk about a fixed event:
e.g. The meeting will start at 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.
Ask about an event in the future:
e.g. Will we see you tomorrow?
Make an instant decision:
e.g. It’s late. I’ll go home now.
Make a promise:
e.g. I have a meeting tomorrow, but I won’t be home late.
FUTURE CONTINUOUS
WILL +BE + VB – ING
WON’T + BE + VB –ING
5.WILL PROBABLY
• Certain that something will happen:
e.g. They will probably get married next year.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS FOR FUTURE USE
6. PRESENT CONTINUOUS
• Plans and arrangements that are already made, we usually know when the
arrangements are happening:
e.g. We’re flying to LA tomorrow.
• Ask about people’s future arrangements:
e.g. When are you seeing your parents?
NO CHANGE - TENSE
e.g. DIRECT SPEECH: “I’m going to the park – do you want to come?”
INDIRECT SPEECH: He says they’re going to the park and do we want to go
with him?
REPORTED SPEECHES:
reporting what people said (PAST)
CHANGE - TENSE
e.g. DIRECT SPEECH: “We haven’t created the sound effects yet”
INDIRECT SPEECH: He said that they hadn’t created the sound effects yet.
* THAT is not necessary
e.g. We’ll see you later They said (that) they would see us later
SAY + NO OBJECT
e.g. He said me (that) they were very sorry.
100 % 0%
always usually often sometimes hardly ever never
POSITION:
■ BEFORE the main verb
i.e. She often watches crime shows.
i.e. Does he sometimes get angry?
■ AFTER the verb “to be”
i.e. She is always tired. Is she always tired?
■ NEGATIVE SENTENCES always, usually, often
i.e. We don’t usually have breakfast.
■ EXPRESSIONS OF FREQUENCY all the time, every day (at the end)
i.e. I go to the gym every day.
■ TEND TO what usually happens.
i.e. We tend to watch TV on the weekends.
USED TO
USAGE:
Past habits or repeated actions/events
AFFIRMATIVE:
My mother USED TO read to me when I
was a child.
NEGATIVE:
I didn’t USE TO watch much TV.
QUESTION:
Did your dad USE TO read to you?
WOULD & USED TO
WOULD (literary use) + base form main verb
e.g. We would bike to the park, then we would all sit around and tell stories =
We used to bike to the park, then we used to all sit around and tell stories