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 Rose Buhlig
It is by the aid of auxiliary verbs that the perfect, pluperfect, or future tenses are formed.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
"The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first future tenses of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
These are, however, modifications of the affixed particles in the past and future tenses to express differences in time.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
