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THE FUTURE TENSE
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Let’s Get Started:
Identify the verbs in these sentences:
I will watch a film on Sunday.
She will finish reading this book next week.
They will have completed their syllabus by next month.
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct options:
1. Tomorrow Iris will be sleeping all day.
2. By the time we get there, Rohan will have left.
3. He will be meeting them tomorrow at 8 pm for dinner.
4. After I finish this essay, I will have finished all of my holiday homework.
5. Don’t visit me in the afternoon. I will be washing clothes.
6. This time next month, I will be playing on the beach.
7. He doesn’t understand what he did wrong, but he will find out.
8. My sister refused to help! I will never ask her for anything again.
9. If he keeps on eating like this, he will finish all the food in a day.
10. By 2018, I will have been working in this company for five years.
B. Fill in the blanks using the given verbs:
1. The flight will leave at 4:20 a.m.
2. We are going to buy the cake from the new bakery on Church Street.
3. My grandmother believes it will rain tomorrow.
4. Next year, I will have been playing at this club for 10 years.
5. By the time you see this, I will have reached England.
6. I am going to see my best friend in the summer.
7. I will come with you to the airport.
8. In June next year, you will have been driving for three years.
9. You will be seeing Tamanna at school tomorrow, won’t you?
10. Shall we go out for dinner tonight?
C. Change these sentences from Simple Past Tense to Future Tense:
1. I will travel to Burma to meet an old friend.
2. She will disguise herself as a beggar and will walk towards her sister.
3. After asking a passer-by for direction, we will find our way to the camp site.
4. He will take off his hat and bow and greet her as if she were a queen.
5. We will talk for over half an hour.
6. I will show her my coin collection.
7. We will exchange phone numbers and promise to keep in touch.
8. I will take the coat from him and walk towards the door.
9. They would speak French well but would not understand a word of English.
10. We will put our books and other things on the table.
D. Rewrite the sentences in the Future Tense:
1. Vinod and Vineeth will clean their rooms before dinner.
2. The little children will feed the horses and the cattle at the farm.
3. She will be elated, but her sister will be miserable.
4. They will be brave, even though they will say they will feel scared.
5. She will complete in the Asian Games today.
6. The thieves will leap out of the car and run into the bank.
7. Shamita will be confused when she will open the door.
8. Thomas will ride his cycle to the stadium and forget it there.
9. The wind will blow the newspapers away.
10. The blow to the forehead will kill him instantly.
E. Fill in the blanks with the Future Perfect Tense of the verbs given in the
brackets:
1. The doctor will have left by six in the evening.
2. I will have lived in this house for five years in March.
3. Pratheesh will have completed his project by March.
4. Mohan will have slept enough to rest and heal his body by evening.
5. I will have done all the arrangements by 7 p.m.
6. By tomorrow morning, he will have forgotten everything.
7. By the end of this year, Mrs Jerome will have taught us for over ten years.
8. By ten o’clock, everyone will have fallen asleep.
9. At 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, they will have begun working.
10. My brother and I will have cleaned our rooms by dinner.
