Making predictions with the future tense
One of the many uses of the future tenses in English is to make predictions – to suggest, or guess, something is likely to happen in the future. We usually make predictions with the future simple forms of will (It will be a good day.) or going to (Our team are going...Nasty nouns for Halloween
As the end of October approaches, and all things creepy are upon us, it’s time to brush up on some more Halloween vocabulary. Having set the scene with our abysmal adjectives for Halloween, now it’s time to meet the cast of objects and creatures that populate the...Choosing between the future continuous and future simple
As my series of articles about state has shown, with certain verbs there are some tricky areas in choosing between the simple and continuous forms in the past and present. Things are a little more flexible in the future (though flexibility does not necessarily make...Identifying State Verbs – Simple or Continuous Exercise
The following exercise is designed to test your understanding of my series of articles about the simple tenses and state verbs. Remember, verbs that refer to conditions, emotions, possession and senses usually have simple tense uses, not continuous uses. Simple...Want to Master English?
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