FUTURE TENSE

What Is the Future Tense? (with Examples)

The future tense is a verb tense used for a future activity or a future state of being. For example:

• I will jump in the lake.
(This is a future activity.)
• I will be happy.
(This is a future state of being.)

The Four Future Tenses Explained

The future tense is categorized further depending on whether the action will be in progress or will be completed (called the aspect of a verb). The four future tenses are:

Simple Future Tense

Here is an infographic summarizing the simple future tense.

Examples of the Simple Future Tense

"will"

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[base form of the verb]

• I will play after breakfast.
• Susan will not go to Germany.
• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. (Greek biographer Plutarch)
• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. (Author Og Mandino)
• Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Physicist Albert Einstein)
• Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. (Robert A Heinlein)
• In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Activist Martin Luther King Jr)
• Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. (Chinese philosophe Confucius)
(Have to is known as a modal auxiliary verb. Like must, it is used to express obligation.)
• Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. (Producer Johnny Carson)
(Remember that won't is a contraction of will not and is often used to form the simple future tense.
• I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. (Singer Freddie Mercury)