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Verb tenses, Other ways to talk about the future - Coggle Diagram
Verb tenses
Present simple, I study
- things that are always true
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- describe opinions ad ideas
- describe likes and dislikes
- things that are often repeated or happen regularly
- describe what happens in a film, play or book
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Past simple I studied
- a single completed action in the past
- repeated actions in the past
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- an action completed in the past
- adverbs of time: ago, for, last week
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Used to
- Talk about regular past actions that do not happen now
- past situations that are no longer true
- When we start descriptions of past actions with used to, we usually continue with would
- emphasise the difference between past and present
Would
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- talk about regular past actions that do not happen now
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be going to
- to talk about future plans or arrangements, but we haven't made all the arrangements yet
We are going to meet Joe's mother next week, but we haven't arranged a time yet.
- when we plan to do something in the immediate future
- to talk about things we expect to happen, so for prediction based on something we can see now, or what everybody knows
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Will
- for predictions based on our personal opinion or knowledge
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- we DON'T use will to talk about personal arrangements
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- to talk about events that are certain to happen.
- when we decide to do something at the same time as speaking, something we didn't plan
- to make offers, promises and warnings.
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