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Will and present continuous for future plans - Coggle Diagram
Will and present continuous for future plans
Will
Use the future with will to talk about an event in the future that you have just decided to do, for predictions and for promises.
Structure
Positive
Subject + Will + Verb + Complement
I will meet him later at the cinema
Questions
Will + Subject + Verb + Complement + ?
Will I be famous some time?
Negative
Subject + Won't + Verb+ Complement
I won't go to the party tomorrow
Is used when we decide to do something at the time of speaking.
Present Continous
We can use the present continuous to talk about future arrangements.
An arrangement is something that is done to prepare or plan for something in the future.
An arrangement is also an agreement between two people or groups about how something happens or will happen.
Structure
Positive Form
Subject + verb TO BE + verb –ing + complement
You are staying with Emily this week
It is important to include the verb TO BE after the subject and before the main verb.
Negative Form
Subject + verb TO BE+ not + verb –ing + complement
She is not doing her homework after dinner
The negative form is after verb TO BE.
Interrogative
Verb TO BE + subject + verb –ing + complement +?
Are Camila and his boyfriend flying to Toronto next week?
Question word + verb TO BE + subject + verb –ing +?
What are you doing on Monday night?
In the examples, there are two different ways of structuring an interrogative sentence in the present continuous tense.