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  2. Future tense - Wikipedia

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    In grammar, a future tense (abbreviated FUT) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, ...

  3. Going-to future - Wikipedia

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    The going-to future is one of several constructions used in English to refer to future events (see Future tense § English). The basic form of the going-to construction is in fact in the present tense ; it is often used when the speaker wishes to draw a connection between present events, situations, or intentions and expected future events or ...

  4. Modern Hebrew verbs - Wikipedia

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    All imperatives are only used in affirmative commands, and in predominantly formal contexts. Negative commands use the particle אַל /al/ followed by the corresponding future-tense form; as לא and a future tense negates the declaration not the command (contrast "don't do it" with "[you] won't do it"). The passive binyanim pu'al and huf'al ...

  5. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    Verb tenses are inflectional forms which can be used to express that something occurs in the past, present, or future. [1] In English, the only tenses are past and non-past, though the term "future" is sometimes applied to periphrastic constructions involving modals such as will and go.

  6. Near future (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Going-to future in English may express near future. Similarly to English, the French verb aller (to go) can be used as an auxiliary verb to create a near-future tense (le futur proche). Whereas English uses the continuous aspect (to be going), French uses the simple present tense; for example, the English sentence "I am going to do it tomorrow ...

  7. Future perfect - Wikipedia

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    subject I + habré future of haber will have + hablado past participle spoken yo {} habré {} hablado subject + { future of haber } + {past participle} I {} {will have} {} spoken The future of haber is formed by the future stem habr + the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. The past participle of a verb is formed by adding the endings -ado and -ido to ar and er / ir verbs, respectively ...

  8. Ancient Greek verbs - Wikipedia

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    This verb is made more complex by the fact that in Attic Greek (that is, the dialect of most of the major classical authors), the present tense (apart from the indicative mood), imperfect tense, and future are usually replaced by parts of the irregular verb εἶμι (eîmi) "I (will) go": [35] The indicative of εἶμι (eîmi) is generally ...

  9. Prospective aspect - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, the prospective aspect (abbreviated PROSP or PRSP) is a grammatical aspect describing an event that occurs subsequent to a given reference time. [1] One way to view tenses in English and many other languages is as a combination of a reference time (past, present, or future) in which a situation takes place, and the time of a particular event relative to the reference time ...