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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,  
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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 04:12, 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.