Advanced future forms
Choose a future form by viewpoint rather than by a single time label. Move from activity in progress to completion and duration before a deadline, then learn how the entire future perspective shifts when the reference point is in the past.
What you will learn
- Use future continuous for ongoing or expected activity.
- Contrast future perfect completion with future perfect continuous duration.
- Keep present tense in future time clauses.
- Express future-in-the-past plans, expectations, and imminent events.
Before you start
- Know will, going to, present-continuous arrangements, and the B1 future continuous.
Lessons in this path
- 1Future Continuous (B2)
Extends future continuous to neutral expectations, present deduction, interrupted future activity, polite enquiries, register, and future narrative context.
- 2Future Perfect
Uses will have + participle for completion by a future point, deadlines, present deduction, passive form, and future time clauses.
- 3Future Perfect Continuous
Uses will have been + -ing for duration and cause up to a future point, with stative restrictions and inferential uses.
- 4Future in the Past
Shifts future viewpoint into the past through would, was going to, was about to, planned arrangements, and formal was to.