Learn Future Simple Tense | Basic English Grammar Course

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Hi, everyone.
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I'm Esther.
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In this video, I will introduce the future simple tense
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using 'will' and 'be going to'.
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This is a very important tense that will help you express future actions and plans.
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There's a lot to learn, so let's get started.
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The future simple tense can be used to express a future action.
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Let's take a look at some examples.
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‘I'm cold.’
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Well that's right now.
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‘I will close the window.’
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We start with the subject ‘will’.
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And then, the base verb.
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‘I will close the window.’
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In this example, I'm making a sudden decision because how I feel right now.
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I will close the window because I'm cold right now.
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‘I will be at the library tomorrow.’
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Again, you start with the subject and then ‘will’.
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After that, you have the base verb.
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You can use the ‘be’ verb to talk about a confirmed plan.
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‘I will be at the library tomorrow.’
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The economy will get better next year.
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In this case, the subject is ‘the economy’.
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Again, we follow with ‘will’ and the base verb ‘get’.
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‘The economy will get better next year.’
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I'm making a prediction here about something that will happen in the future.
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And finally, ‘I will help you with your homework.’
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I'm making a future plan to help you.
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‘I will help you with your homework.’
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It doesn't say when but I am talking about the future.
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Let's move on.
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You can also use ‘be going to’ to express a future action.
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It's almost the same as ‘will’.
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Here are some examples.
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‘There's no milk.
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I'm going to buy some.’
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So what you see here is the subject and then the ‘be’ verb - ‘am’.
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‘I am’
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And then here we used a contraction ‘I'm’.
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‘I'm going to buy some.’
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I made a decision to buy some because there's no milk.
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The next sentence says, ‘It looks like it's going to snow tomorrow.’
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Here the subject is ‘it’ and so I use the ‘be’ verb – ‘is’.
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‘it is’
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‘It's’ is the contraction.
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‘It's going to’ And then we use the base verb ‘snow’.
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The word ‘tomorrow’ shows that this is a future action.
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‘He's going to take a trip in the summer.’
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Because the subject is ‘he’, we use the ‘be’ verb – is.
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And we can use the contraction ‘he's’. ‘he is’ or ‘he's’ going to
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And then the base verb ‘take’
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‘take a trip in the summer’
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Again an action happening in the future.
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Let's move on.
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Now, let's take a look at the negative form of the future simple tense.
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The first example says, ‘Stan will not like his English score.’
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No matter what the subject is, we follow with ‘will not’ and then the
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base form of the verb.
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‘Stan will not like his English score.’
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‘We won't give you money anymore.’
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In this case, the subject is ‘we’.
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And we follow with the contraction ‘won't’.
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It sounds really different and it's different from other contractions,
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but ‘won't’ is the contraction for ‘will not’
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so you can say ‘we will not’ or ‘we won't’.
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They're the same.
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‘We won't give you money anymore.’
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Again, you notice the base verb ‘give’ after ‘not’.
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‘He is not going to fly until next week.’
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This sentence uses ‘be going to’.
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The subject is ‘he’.
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And therefore the ‘be’ verb we use is – ‘is’
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However we put a ‘not’ after the ‘be’ verb.
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‘He is not going to …’ And then the base verb.
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‘He is not going to fly until next week.’
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The last sentence says, ‘You are not going to go to the party tonight.’
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The subject is ‘you’ and so we use the ‘be’ verb – ‘are’.
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‘You are not going to go …’ That's the base verb.
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‘… to the party tonight.’
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Let's move on.
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Now let's take a look at how to form basic questions in the future simple tense.
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The first sentence says, ‘He will play with us.’
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To turn this into a question, all we have to do is change the order of the
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first two words.
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So ‘He will becomes ‘Will he’.
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‘Will he play with us?’
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‘The next sentence says, ‘He is going to play with us.’
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This one uses ‘be going to’.
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The subject is ‘he’.
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And so the ‘be’ verb to use is – ‘is’.
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Then we have ‘going to’ and then the base verb.
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‘He is going to play with us.’
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When I make a question, I simply again change the order of the first two words.
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‘Is he going to play with us?’
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Now if the subject were to be ‘you’ or ‘we’ or ‘they’,
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we would say ‘they are’.
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And so the question would say, ‘Are they'.
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'Are they going to play with them?’
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for example.
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So again, remember, for ‘will’ in the future simple tense,
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just say ‘will’ subject and then the base form of the verb.
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However for ‘be going to’ questions, make sure that you pay attention to the proper
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'be' verb to use at the beginning of the question.
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To answer the first question, ‘Will he play with us?’
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You can say ‘Yes, he will’ or ‘No, he won't’.
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‘Is he going to play with us?’
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You can say, ‘Yes, he's going to’ or ‘No, he isn't going to’.
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Let's move on.
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Let's look at how to form ‘WH’ questions in the future simple tense.
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If you notice each question begins with a ‘WH’ word.
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Who
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When
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Where
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And What
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The first two sentences use ‘will’ for the future simple tense.
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‘Who will win the game?’
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To answer I can say, ‘My team will win the game.’
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‘When will they arrive?’
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‘They will arrive in two hours.’
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Now these two sentences have ‘be going to’.
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‘Where is he going to study?’
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In this case, I have the ‘be’ verb – ‘is’ because the subject is ‘he’.
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‘Where is he going to study?’
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I can say, ‘He is going to study at the library.’
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And finally, ‘What are you going to do?’
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In this case, I use the ‘be’ verb – ‘are’ because the subject is ‘you’.
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‘What are you going to do?’
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‘I am going to take a shower.’
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Let's move on.
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Great job, everyone.
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You now have a better understanding of the future simple tense.
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There's still a lot of practice you need to do because this tense is so important.
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Keep studying and I'll see you in the next video.
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