Tenses · CEFR B2 · Confident
Future Continuous — English tenses
Something that will be in progress at a future moment.
The shape
will be + verb-ing
Say what you will be in the middle of at a future moment.
In Hindi
आगे किसी वक़्त जो काम चल रहा होगा।
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The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
This time tomorrow I will travel. | This time tomorrow I will be travelling. A moment in the middle of an action takes will be + -ing. |
Learn these first
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Questions people ask
- What is the future continuous used for?
- Something that will be in progress at a future moment. In practice: say what you will be in the middle of at a future moment.
- How do you form the future continuous?
- will be + verb-ing.
- What is the most common mistake with the future continuous?
- Saying “This time tomorrow I will travel.” instead of “This time tomorrow I will be travelling.”. A moment in the middle of an action takes will be + -ing.
Where future continuous fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
Future Continuous is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to tenses. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
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