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:
She won't try personnel rotation as a mechanism of knowledge transfer.
Lawrence will keep track of the floor stock and expense them as they're received.
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 present the results of our feasibility study to the board next week.
Tom is going to purchase a permeation tube manufacturing pack at the conference.
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:
Mary won't have increased our output by the end of the first quarter.
What will they have produced in that antiquated factory by this time next month?
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:
How good will the optical guided system be working when the special strip on the floor is worn away next year?
Abby won't be writing down each electronic product code when he's trained on the computers next week.