Certainly you can use the future continu ous tense in general, also called the future progressive tense, but not with non-progressive verbs like have , as in to have free time . Non-progressive verbs cannot be used in any continuous tense. This

Tanglish wrote: Hi all, I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses????

Soylista wrote: I will be going to stay here for a month before returning home. This is an example of double future auxiliary in the same sentence and it's gramatically strange... It's not the future progressive and infinitive because the

CalifJim wrote: Welcome to English Forums! This is the going to of motion, not the going to of the future. Here are sentences which use both: I am going to go shopping. ( going of the future; go of motion) I am going to be going

Hello Mara I know there is some difference in the degree of politeness between the simple and the progressive tenses about some verbs. Examples are between <I hope that ..> and <I'm hoping that …> or between "I wonder if …> and

Hello Roro By the time you get to work tomorrow, I will have been slaving away for hours. – Yes, this one's fine! By the time you get to work tomorrow, I will be slaving away for hours. – You're right to be uneasy about this one. 'By the

Pemmican wrote: As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive

An interesting question, Paco. We can use the simple present to talk about the future, but we usually use it when we are speaking of events which are part of a regular timetable, or a routine part of our life. So: The summer term will start

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past simple 2. The shop on