Usage of Future Continuous Tense
- Future Continuous Tense is used to express future actions without definite time limits. (I will be living in Manchester after getting married)
- Future Continuous Tense is used to express something that will be continuing at some particular time in the future (I shall be cooking dinner when my husband goes home)
Affirmative
Subject + will/ shall + be +Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it will be going to Italy
I/ we shall be going to Rome
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Negative
Subject + will/ shall + not + be +Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it will not be going to Italy
I/ we shall not be going to Rome
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Interrogative
Will/ shall + subject + be + Verb-ing
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Will I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it be going to Italy?
Shall I/we be going to Rome?
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Negative interrogative
Will/ shall + not + subject + be + Verb-ing
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Will not I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my
friend/it be going to Italy?
Shall not I/we be going to Rome?
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Notes:
The shorted
form
I will : I’ll
You will : You’ll
We will : We’ll
They will : They’ll
He will : He’ll
She will : She’ll
Will not : Won’t
Shall not : Shan’t
Short Answer Question
Future
Continuous Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Will you be going to Madrid?
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Yes I will
No, I will not
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Yes I will be going to Madrid
No, I will not be going to Madrid
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Will he be going to Madrid?
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Yes he will
No, he will not
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Yes he will be going to Madrid
No, he will not be going to Madrid
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