By Future progressive, Tenses

Huygen, By reading your post, something tells me that your English level should be beyond the question you just asked, and able to categorize the tenses already. There are 3 basic tenses: Simple past – present – future There are past progressive- present progressive- future progressive....

Will both the processes in 1 and 3 end by next week and by the end of the year? If they do, why not use future perfect tense? If they don't, why not use future perfect progressive? Please advise, thanks.

We will be forgetting everything by next week. We'll have forgotten everything by next week. By the end of the year, they'll be learning all they need to know. By the end of the year, they'll have learned all they need to know. I don't understand sentence 1 and 3...

Certainly you can use the future continuous 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 prohibition is not limited to the present continuous,...

Hi, it's future progressive then? No. I will see you tomorrow is Simple Future. I will be seeing you tomorrow is Future Continuous/Progressive. It's usually an idiomatic wayof saying 'I will encounter you tomorrw'. A better example of Future Continuous as an on-going event is something like...

it's future progressive then?Thanks CJ!

I'm going home now - present progressive? (action in progress.)I'll see you tomorrow - future progressive? (Events in progress at a future time.)Thank you.

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect Progressive Tense 9: Simple Future...

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???? Thanks!!!!

CalifJim wrote:True? All are correct, however. CJ Hi CJ,Does Will you ask him for help? imply I'll be happy if you do (ask him) or I want you to ask him? I'd say so. Also, there's no such implication in Are you going to ask him for help?, isn't it?What about Will you be asking him...