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🔰 Future ⚫️ Simple present for future ⚫️ استخدام الزمن المضارع البسيط للتعبير عن المستقبل 1⃣ Timetables, etc: 🔻We can sometimes use the simple present to talk about the future. This is common when we are talking about events which are part of a timetable, a regular schedule or something similar. 🔻يمكننا أحياناً استخدام المضارع البسيط للتعبير عن المستقبل. هذا الأمر شائع عندما نتحدث عن أحداث هي جزء من جدول زمني أو جدول منتظم أو شيء من هذا القبيل. 🔹The summer term starts on April 10th. 🔹What time does the bus arrive in Seattle? 🔹My plane leaves at three o’clock. 🔹The sun rises at 6.13 tomorrow. 🔻Willis also usually possible in these cases. 🔻يمكن أيضاً استخدام Will في هذه الحالات. 🔹The summer term will start on April 10th. 2⃣ Subordinate clauses: 🔻The simple present is often used with a future meaning in subordinate clauses - for example afterwhat, where, when, until, if, than. 🔻غالبًا ما يتم استخدام المضارع البسيط مع معنى مستقبلي في العبارات الثانوية - على سبيل المثال بعد what, where when ,until, if, than. 🔹I’ll tell you what I find out. (Not ... what I'll find out.)✘ 🔹She’ll pay us back when she gets a job. (Not ... when she’ll get a job.)✘ 🔹Alex will see us tomorrow if he has time, (Not ... if he will have time.)✘ 3⃣ Instructions: 🔻Occasionally the simple present is used with a future meaning when asking for and giving instructions. 🔻في بعض الأحيان يتم استخدام المضارع البسيط مع معنى مستقبلي عند طلب وإعطاء التعليمات. 🔹Where do I pay? 🔹Well, what do we do now? 🔹So when you get to London you go straight to Victoria Station, you meet up with the others, Ramona gives you your ticket, and you catch the 17.15 train to Dover. OK? 4⃣ Other cases 🔻In other cases, we do not usually use the simple present to talk about the future. 🔻في حالات أخرى، عادةً لا نستخدم المضارع البسيط للحديث عن المستقبل. 🔹Lucy's coming for a drink this evening. (Not Lucy comes ...)✘ 🔹I promise I’ll call you this evening. (Not I promise I call you this evening.)✘ 🔹‘There’s the doorbell.’ ‘I'll go.’ (Not ... I go.)✘ @EnglishGrammarSecrets