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🔰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