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  2. Future tense - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In grammar, a future tense (abbreviated FUT) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. An example of a future tense form is the French aimera, meaning "will love", derived from the verb aimer ("to love"). The "future" expressed by the future tense ...

  3. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The usual restrictions apply, on the use both of the future and of the progressive: simple rather than progressive aspect is used with some stative verbs (see {{Section link}}: required section parameter(s) missing), and present rather than future constructions are used in many dependent clauses (see § Conditional sentences and § Dependent ...

  4. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    What is often called the future tense of English is formed using the auxiliary will. The simple future is will write, the future progressive (continuous) is will be writing, the future perfect is will have written, and the future perfect progressive (continuous) is will have been writing.

  5. Continuous and progressive aspects - Wikipedia

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    The Past Continuous Tense (Şimdiki Zaman Hikâyesi) in Turkish. [4] [5] The progressive aspect expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress while the continuous aspect expresses the state of the subject that is continuing the action. For instance, "Tom is reading" can express dynamic activity: "Tom is reading a book" – i.e ...

  6. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    These two tenses may be modified further for progressive aspect (also called continuous aspect), for the perfect, or for both. These two aspectual forms are also referred to as BE +ING [13] and HAVE +EN, [14] respectively, which avoids what may be unfamiliar terminology. Aspects of the present tense: Present simple (not progressive, not perfect ...

  7. Grammatical tense - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical tense. In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference. [1][2] Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their conjugation patterns. The main tenses found in many languages include the past, present, and future. Some languages have only two distinct tenses, such as past and ...

  8. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Shall and will. Shall. and. will. Shall and will are two of the English modal verbs. They have various uses, including the expression of propositions about the future, in what is usually referred to as the future tense of English. Historically, prescriptive grammar stated that, when expressing pure futurity (without any additional meaning such ...

  9. Simple present - Wikipedia

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    The simple present is the most commonly used verb form in English, accounting for more than half of verbs in spoken English. [1] It is called "simple" because its basic form consists of a single word (like write or writes), in contrast with other present tense forms such as the present progressive (is writing) and present perfect (has written ...