Helping Hints for the Future
Auxiliary Verbs Used with Future Tenses
Future with 'Will':
Use 'will' for the positive, negative and question forms in the future with 'will' to express spontaneous decisions and predictions. Remember that the negative contracted form of 'will not' is 'won't'.
Example:
Midscale restaurants will be the preferred model next year.
The vending machine will be installed at three o'clock.
Future with 'Going to':
Use 'be' in the present tense + 'going to' for the positive, negative and question forms for the future with 'going to' to express future plans and intentions.
Example:
Tom is going to open his own full service hotel in Nebraska next year.
Are they going to mention the daily rate?
Future Perfect:
Use 'will have' for the positive, negative and question forms in the future perfect to express what will have been completed before a point in time in the future. Remember that the negative contracted form of 'will not' is 'won't'.
Example:
The staff will have alerted all the customers by the time the fire department arrives.
How will guests needs have changed by 2012?
Future Continuous:
Use 'will be' + the 'ing' for of the verb for the positive, negative and question forms for the future continuous to express what will be happening at a specific moment in time in the future.
Example:
They will be serving ice cream a la carte for dinner this evening.
Our limousine rentals will be fully booked tomorrow at ten.