future tense
noun
in English, the simple future.
future tenses
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pluralof future tense.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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As he spoke of the moments leading up to 5:48 p.m. when the bomb went off, Captain Ball started using present and future tenses, as if to create some emotional distance for himself.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021
Exercise 104—Shall and Will The auxiliary verbs used to form the future tenses are shall and will.
From Business English A Practice Book by Buhlig, Rose
As an example of Bh. conjugation we give the present, past and future tenses in all persons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Usually rather distinct present, past, and future tenses are discovered; often a remote or ancient past, and less often an immediate future.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by Powell, John Wesley
Verbs have six tenses, the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first and second future tenses.
From Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words by Summerfield, John
