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''For the article about forming the future tense in Scottish Gaelic see [[Future Tense]]''
  
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.  
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The Future [[Tense (definition)|tense]] marks situations where the event described by the [[Predicate (definition)|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==
 
==See Also==
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*[[Future Tense]]
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Present_tense
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*http://linguistics-ontology.org/gold/FutureTense
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Tense
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Latest revision as of 22:11, 7 June 2012

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

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

References

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