Matakuliah
Tahun
Versi
: G0134/Grammar III
: 2005
: revisi 1
Pertemuan 7
Future Continuous & Future
Perfect
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Learning Outcomes
Pada akhir pertemuan ini, diharapkan mahasiswa
akan mampu :
• Menerapkan penggunaan Future
Continuous & Future Perfect dengan
benar.
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Outline Materi
• Future Continuous
• Future Perfect
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Future Continuous
We use the future continuous (will be –ing)
for an event which is going on at a
particular time in the future or over a
period of time in the future:
• I’ll be working at seven o’clock. (=I will
start before seven and I will continue after
seven)
• By the time you read this letter I’ll be
sailing towards Australia.
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Going to
We use ‘going to’:
• For future actions which we have already
decided about.
Compare:
• We’re going to pack up our stuff, we’re going
to send a message to the mainland and we’re
going to leave. (= they already have a clear
plan)
• We’ll pack up our stuff …etc. (= she might be
deciding as she speaks or it might be a simple
statement of fact, not a planned action)
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Going to
• To predict something, when we already see
evidence for our prediction:
» It’s going to rain soon. (= the speaker knows it’s
going to rain because he can see the clouds)
• There are many situations when either going to
or will can be used with no real difference in
meaning.
• Going to is used extremely often in everyday
speech. In formal and written English will and
the present tenses are used more often than
going to.
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Future Perfect
• We use the future prefect simple for an
action which will be complete at a point
of time in the future. It is usual to mention
the point in time:
By the end of this week we’ll have
survived longer than anyone else.
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Future Perfect Continuous
• We use the future perfect continuous to
emphasize how long an action will have
lasted up to a point in the future. It is
usually necessary to mention the point of
time and the length of time:
• By the end of this week, we’ll have been
living here for six months.
»State verbs are not used in the future
perfect continuous.
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Future Perfect
• We use ‘to be about to’ to talk about something
which is going to happen very soon and for
which we are already preparing: Actually, we’re
about to leave.
• In the negative, to be about to often means ‘ do
not intend to’ do something:
• We aren’t about to change the rules just
because you don’t like them. (= we refuse to
change the rules just because you don’t like
them)
Source: Cambridge GRAMMAR for First Certificate by Louise Hashemi & Barbara Thomas
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