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The future is one of the most complex areas of the English language. Many different tenses and ideas can be used with future meanings. The seven most common are as follows: the future simple, the future continuous, the future perfect, the future perfect continuous, ‘going to’ future, the present simple and the present continuous. Each tense has a different structure, however, their usages are usually confused with other future tenses or even the present tenses.
The future simple tense is used for facts, promises, predictions, spontaneous decisions, and threats while the future continuous tense expresses an action that is in progress at a particular time in the future. The future perfect is used to say that something is completed before a certain time in the future whereas Present perfect continuous is to say how long something will have continued by a certain time. The present simple and present continuous are normally used as present tenses, but also have future applications.
The future simple and ‘going to’ are both used for predictions but the predictions expressed by the future simple are based on intuition and experience while those expressed by ‘going to’ are based on present evidence. Additionally, ‘going to’ usually refers to the near future while the future simple doesn’t refer to any specific moment.
