Future Tense (definition)

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

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

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.