Future Tense (definition)

For the article about forming the future tense in Scottish Gaelic see Future Tense

The Future tense marks situations where the event described by the predicate will happen after the time of speaking or writing. In English, the future tense is often marked by the modals will or shall.

See Also

• Past Tense (definition)
• Present Tense (definition)
• Tense (definition)
• Future Tense

External Links

• http://linguistics-ontology.org/gold/FutureTense

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Tense

References

• Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.