单词 | future tense |
释义 | future tense (once / 49871 pages) n In grammar, the future tense is the verb form you use to talk about things that haven't happened yet. When you say, "The party will be so fun!" "will be" is in the future tense. Whenever you write or talk about things that you expect to happen later, you use the future tense. If your grandmother says, "We will bake cookies tomorrow," she is using the future tense to make it clear that nobody's baking cookies today — you'll have to wait until tomorrow. The future tense can be more complicated than this simple form, but it always signifies an intended or expected future action. WORD FAMILYfuture tense: future tenses USAGE EXAMPLESI used the same figure, and almost the same wording, in a Sept. 9 Future Tense post. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) Due to an editing error, a Dec. 15 Future Tense blog post misidentified the Federal Trade Commission as the Federal Trader Commission. Slate(Dec 16, 2016) PESHAWAR, Pakistan — In a second-grade classroom, decorated with colorful posters of letters, numbers and animals, students were reciting English sentences using the future tense. Washington Post(Dec 09, 2016) n a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Syn|Hyper future tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
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