English Grammar Secrets

🔰Future (BE TO + infinitive) 1️⃣Plans and arrangements: ✨We use this structure in a formal style to talk about official and other plans and arrangements. 🔹The President is to visit Nigeria next month. 🔹We are to get a 10 per cent wage rise in June. 🔹I felt nervous because I was soon to leave homefor the first time. ✨A perfect infinitive can be used to show that a planned event did not happen. 🔹I was to have started work last week, but I changed my mind. 2️⃣ 'fate': ✨Another use is to talk about things which are/were ‘hidden in the future’, fated to happen. 🔹I thought we were saying goodbye for ever. But we were to meet again, many years later, under very strange circumstances. 3️⃣pre-conditions: ✨This structure is common in if-clauses, when the main clause expresses a pre­ condition - something that must happen first if something else is to happen. 🔹If we are to get there by lunchtime, we had better hurry. 🔹He knew he would have to work hard if he was to pass his exam. 4️⃣orders: ✨The structure is used to give orders, for example by parents speaking to children. 🔹You are to do your homework before you watch TV. 🔹She can go to the party, but she's not to be back late. 5️⃣be + passive infinitive: ✨Be + passive infinitive is often used in notices and instructions. am/are/is (not) to be + past participle 🔹This cover is not to be removed. ✨Sometimes only the passive infinitive is used. 🔹To be taken three times a day after meals, (on a medicine bottle) ✨Some other common expressions with be + passive infinitive: 🔹There’s nothing to be done. 🔹She was nowhere to be found. 🔹I looked out of the window, but there was nothing to be seen. @EnglishGrammarSecrets

🔰Future ⚪️Future perfect (will have + past participle) ➖ We can use the future perfect to say that something will be finished or complete by a certain time in the future. 🔹The builders say they will have finished the roof by Tuesday. 🔹I’ll have spent all my savings by the end of the year. ➖A progressive form can be used to talk about a continuous activity. 🔹I’ll have been teaching for twenty years this summer. @EnglishGrammarSecrets

✨Different meanings of will you ...? ➖ With a verb referring to a state, will you ...? asks for information. 🔹How soon will you know your travel dates? 🔹Will you be here next week? ➖ With a verb referring to an action, will you ...? usually introduces an order or request. 🔹Will you turn offthat music! 🔹Will you do the shopping this afternoon, please? ➖ To ask for information about planned actions, we use a present form or the future progressive. 🔹When are you going to see Andy? 🔹Are you doing the shopping this afternoon? 🔹Will you be doing the shopping...? @EnglishGrammarSecrets

🔰Future ✨Will and Present forms: both possible✌🏻 Will and present forms (especially going to ...) are often both possible in the same situation, if ‘present’ ideas like intention or fixed arrangement are a part of the meaning, but not very important. The choice can depend on which aspect we wish to emphasise. 🔹What will you do next year? (open question about the future; perhaps no clear plans have been made) 🔸What are you doing next year? (emphasis on fixed arrangements) ◽️What are you going to do next year? (emphasis on intentions) 🔹All the family will be there. ◽️All the family are going to be there. 🔹If your mother comes, you’ll have to help with the cooking. ◽️If your mother comes, you're going to have to help with the cooking. 🔹You won’t believe this. ◽️You’re not going to believe this. 🔹Next year will be different. ◽️Next year is going to be different. 🔹Jack will explain everything to you. ◽️Jack’s going to explain everything to you. ➖Both going to ... and stressed will can express a strong intention or determination. ◽️I’m really going to stop smoking! 🔹I really will stop smoking! ➖In cases like these, the different forms are all correct, and it is unimportant which one is chosen. @EnglishGrammarSecrets

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