future tense
Americannoun
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in English, the simple future.
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any verb formation or construction used to express an action or state that is to occur at a time after the present, such as, in English, the future perfect or future progressive tenses.
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an instance or form of a verb expressing an action or state that is to occur at a time after the present.
“I will go” is the first person singular future tense of “go.”
Find all the future tenses in the following paragraph.
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Etymology
Origin of future tense
First recorded in 1550–60
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