Future Tense

FUTURE SIMPLE ( WILL/SHALL/)

Future Tense

There are several time expressions that are used in all of the different forms of the future tense. They are generally used at the end of the sentence or question. The most common are: tomorrow, next week (Sunday/month/year), in two days (weeks, months years), the day after tomorrow.

Future Simple: Will + Base Form of the Verb

This form is used to:
Describe a simple action in the future:

1. 
   She‘ll write the e-mail after lunch.
   
2. 
   Alice won’t help us decorate for the party.
   

Make a prediction or give a warning:

1. 
   Don’t lift that. You‘ll hurt yourself
   
2. 
   If you don’t finish the bid, the boss won’t give you a raise.
   

Make a spontaneous decision:

1. 
   You dropped your purse. I‘ll get it.
   

Subject	will or won’t +verb		rest of sentence
	Positive	Negative
I / You / We / They He / She / It	will see	won’t see	you tomorrow night

Contractions

In general, use the contracted forms of the pronoun + will:
I will > I’ll / he will > he’ll / she will > she’ll / you will > you’ll / we will > we’ll /they will > they’ll
Ex. I’ll see you tomorrow. / You’ll get the answer by post.
Try to use the short form won’t instead of will not
Ex. I won’t see you tomorrow.
Save the long forms for when you want to create emphasis in spoken Englsih or when writing formal texts.
Ex. You will not do that again! / His hypothesis will not stand up to their criticism.

Yes/No Questions in the Future Simple

To create a question that will be answered with a yes or no, use Will (or Won’t) + subject + base form of the verb.