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Episode 29 Future Time

Episode 29 Future Time

Hello folks!

This week I’m making a start on future time reference. As you know the linguists out there view the future as a tense but many grammarians think of future time as a semantic category. Today I’m going to chat to you about the five most commonly used ways to talk about the future.

If you are interested in reading up on this topic in more detail, check out chapter four of Geoffrey Leech’s Meaning and the English Verb

For practical exercises, check out chapters 9-14 of Martin Hewings’s Advanced Grammar in Use.

Episode 30 Futurate vs. will-future

Episode 30 Futurate vs. will-future

Episode 28 Of and for

Episode 28 Of and for