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WILL

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Uses

Will

has a number of uses, the most frequent being those used to refer to future

time and prediction.

Future time

One of the principal functions of will is to refer to future time, since English does

not have a separate, inflected future tense (

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361–376 Future time

):

[talking of a plan to redesign an urban area]

Cars 

will be banned. Coaches, bikes, wheelchairs and pedestrians will be

catered for; drivers 

will not be welcome. 

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The referendum 

will take place on June 23rd.

I

’ll be sixty-five in a few years’ time and I’ll be retiring.

Will

is used for first, second and third person subjects to refer to future time. 

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