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| <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Adverbs such as 'always', 'only', 'never', 'ever', 'still', 'just' etc. are often used with the future continuous to add emphasis. The following examples show where to include these words:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Do you think you'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ll</span> <u>still</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">be doing</span> the same job in five years?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>If she's<span style="color: red;"> </span>any later, we'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <u>still</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">going to be waiting</span> for her at lunch time.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ll</span> <u>only</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">be staying</span> in Rome for one night so I won't have time to see much. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Looking at the schedule we'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <u>just</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">going to be landing</span> when James starts the meeting.</span></b></p> <br></html> | <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Adverbs such as 'always', 'only', 'never', 'ever', 'still', 'just' etc. are often used with the future continuous to add emphasis. The following examples show where to include these words:</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Do you think you'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ll</span> <u>still</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">be doing</span> the same job in five years?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>If she's<span style="color: red;"> </span>any later, we'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <u>still</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">going to be waiting</span> for her at lunch time.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'> </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>I'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">ll</span> <u>only</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">be staying</span> in Rome for one night so I won't have time to see much. </span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b style=";"><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Looking at the schedule we'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">re</span> <u>just</u> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">going to be landing</span> when James starts the meeting.</span></b></p> <br></html> |
| =====Using the future continuous to talk about plans and arrangements===== | =====Using the future continuous to talk about plans and arrangements===== |
| <html> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>It is often difficult to know which future tense to use, especially when the situation seems to be the same. Although your meaning will be clear whichever you use, asking these questions will help you to choose the most natural tense: Why is this event being talked about? What is the background context?</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: background1;'> </span></b></p> <table style="margin: auto auto auto -1.7pt; border: currentColor; border-image: none; border-collapse: collapse; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; mso-padding-alt: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-alt: solid #4F81BD 1.0pt; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody><tr style="mso-yfti-irow: -1; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-lastfirstrow: yes;"> <td width="177" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px 1pt; border-style: solid none none solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 106.35pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-left-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 5;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Future tense </span></b></p> </td> <td width="284" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 6cm; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Example</span></b></p> </td> <td width="312" valign="top" style="background: rgb(79, 129, 189); border-width: 1pt 1pt 0px 0px; border-style: solid solid none none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 187.35pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-background-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-right-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 1;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='color: white; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-themecolor: background1;'>Context</span></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 0;"> <td width="177" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px 1pt 1pt; border-style: solid none solid solid; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 106.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 68;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Future simple </span></b></p> </td> <td width="284" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 0px; border-style: solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 6cm; background-color: transparent; mso-border-top-themecolor: accent1; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal; mso-yfti-cnfc: 64;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;'>We'll have another meeting next week.</span></b></p> </td> <td width="312" valign="top" style="border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt 0px; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(79, 129, 189) rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0cm 5.4pt; border-image: none; width: 187.35pt; background-color: transparent; mso-border-themecolor: accent1;"> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: |