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A verb form that implies that an action will happen at a later time, relative to the time in which the sentence is being uttered. In English, future auxiliary verbs include, will, have, should, might, etc,  
 
 
This tense is used to refer to relate something in the future to the present time that the speaker is in. This can be expressed many ways: adverbially, modal verbs, and inflectionally.
 
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==

Revision as of 03:12, 14 December 2011

A verb form that implies that an action will happen at a later time, relative to the time in which the sentence is being uttered. In English, future auxiliary verbs include, will, have, should, might, etc,

See Also

External Links

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

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

References

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