simple future
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of simple future
First recorded in 1730–40
Example Sentences
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More importantly, that restorative Sunday meal became the creative springboard for weeks of simple future dinners I could vary based on what I had around or whatever flavor profiles I was obsessing over.
From Salon ● May 14, 2021
Once upon a time, refined folk always used I shall or we shall to refer to the simple future, not I will or we will.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Found in the early MSS. in the impersonal form as a simple future.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
The grammar has not changed much, but the use of the compound and impersonal forms is more frequent, and the verb menny has begun to be more commonly used as a simple future auxiliary.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner
The rule is, to express simple future time, use shall in the first person, will in the second and third persons.
From Business English A Practice Book by Rose Buhlig
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