Future Continuous - usage, formation, examples.

This lesson is on the future continuous tense the future continuous is also known as the future progressive is used to refer to an unfinished action that will still be in progress in the future and as with other continuous forms verbs that refer to emotions or desires don’t usually take the continuous form many languages do not have a continuous form which might make it difficult for people who speak as a native language.

the future continuous is used to project ourselves into the future not literally more metaphorically is used to make predictions about future events to ask for information about the future and for things that are happening now and will continue for some time so that the formation in the positive case subject plus will be plus verb plus i n g.

Example I will be eating ice cream.

in a negative case subject plus will not be plus verb and i n g we wont be eating ice cream again well not being shortened to wont.

as a question Will plus subject plus verb plus verb ending will she be eating ice cream and as a negative question wont.

Plus subject plus B plus verb and i n g won’t he be eating ice cream so could some examples when we project ourselves into the future this time next week I’ll be skiing in Switzerland by the end of the year I’ll be running marathons in under three hours you will be working in your job next month and in all of these you’ll notice there is a time component or to make predictions about future events you’ll be missing in this beer when you move to Germany I expect I’ll be seeing Susie at the meeting when I go to London I will be staying with friends and these ones don’t require the time component so use it to ask for information about the future will they be joining us for lunch will you be going to the party tomorrow.

Will you be bringing your new boyfriend to dinner.

And these are sort of this a polite way of asking Is this a bit more indirect if you wanted another way of asking.

You could say are they joining us for lunch.

Are you going to the party tomorrow.

Are you bringing your new boyfriend to dinner but by using this sort of will they or will you.

It makes it slightly more indirect and therefore a bit more polite.

Or for things that are happening now and will continue for some time the stock prices will still be falling tomorrow.

while you’re sleeping I’ll still be doing my assignment will the sea level still be rising in ten years.