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Definition of future tense in English: future tensenoun Grammar A tense expressing an action that has not yet happened or a state that does not yet exist. the dialect does not have a past or future tense the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening Example sentencesExamples - In Urdu, words have suffixes for future tense but none for the past.
- Note the future tense employed by the operative verb phrase here: will support.
- Thus, many African languages simply do not express a future tense or a future history.
- Turning in a 500 word biography, written painstakingly in the past tense, I sighed as my class was assigned another essay, this time in the future tense, due the next day.
- They are, by their nature, hopeful; and, consequently, gardens on television are always spoken of in the future tense.
- I did not use future tense; I used past tense.
- Indeed the Hebrew language knows no future tense (or other tenses familiar to us: an action is either completed or incomplete).
- You'll notice the 'will' - future tense, not present tense.
- The use of the future tense indicates that blessedness includes future benefits that overcome the misfortunes of the present.
- Playing house, for example, reinforces the idea of the future tense and sequential thought, as the child says, "First I'll set the table, then we'll sit down to eat."
- The diamond heist that is the nucleus of Reservoir Dogs is absent from the actual movie, existing only in reference, as a reflection in either past or future tense.
- Although the bulk of the verbs in the chapter are not cast in the future tense, the entire outlook of the subject is future-oriented.
- It has often puzzled me why modern Germanic languages lack future tenses, and instead make do with an impoverished selection of auxiliaries of indeterminate meaning.
- If the question is framed in the future tense, then I understand what conversation we are having.
- Archaeologists use the future tense only when saying things like 'I'll be working on a Neolithic site next year'.
- Affirmations should be affirmed in the present tense, not the future tense.
- That offerings to Poseidon were in the process of being made when the palace was destroyed is implied by the future tense of the verb "to give."
- The loss of the future tense presumably occurred in Gothic times.
- Future tenses in other languages also often express conditional futures.
- People talk a lot about happiness in the future tense.
Definition of future tense in US English: future tensenoun Grammar A tense expressing an action that has not yet happened or a state that does not yet exist. the dialect does not have a past or future tense the report was in the future tense and was written to explain what was due to happen that evening Example sentencesExamples - The loss of the future tense presumably occurred in Gothic times.
- The use of the future tense indicates that blessedness includes future benefits that overcome the misfortunes of the present.
- If the question is framed in the future tense, then I understand what conversation we are having.
- In Urdu, words have suffixes for future tense but none for the past.
- Thus, many African languages simply do not express a future tense or a future history.
- Note the future tense employed by the operative verb phrase here: will support.
- It has often puzzled me why modern Germanic languages lack future tenses, and instead make do with an impoverished selection of auxiliaries of indeterminate meaning.
- Playing house, for example, reinforces the idea of the future tense and sequential thought, as the child says, "First I'll set the table, then we'll sit down to eat."
- Affirmations should be affirmed in the present tense, not the future tense.
- People talk a lot about happiness in the future tense.
- Archaeologists use the future tense only when saying things like 'I'll be working on a Neolithic site next year'.
- The diamond heist that is the nucleus of Reservoir Dogs is absent from the actual movie, existing only in reference, as a reflection in either past or future tense.
- Indeed the Hebrew language knows no future tense (or other tenses familiar to us: an action is either completed or incomplete).
- Turning in a 500 word biography, written painstakingly in the past tense, I sighed as my class was assigned another essay, this time in the future tense, due the next day.
- I did not use future tense; I used past tense.
- They are, by their nature, hopeful; and, consequently, gardens on television are always spoken of in the future tense.
- That offerings to Poseidon were in the process of being made when the palace was destroyed is implied by the future tense of the verb "to give."
- You'll notice the 'will' - future tense, not present tense.
- Although the bulk of the verbs in the chapter are not cast in the future tense, the entire outlook of the subject is future-oriented.
- Future tenses in other languages also often express conditional futures.
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