Why future time is not a tense?

Tenses are important. So, why would anyone say that there is no future tense? This is because there is no special way to change the verbs (action words) themselves for the future tense. To be a tense, the ending of a word has to change.
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Is future a tense or time?

Future is both a tense and a time. Any time past this moment is in the future. In verb tenses (every language I know of has a future tense) the English construction is “I will be going to school.” “The rain will come Friday” etc.
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Why is future called time not?

future tense is called future time because it denotes the time of future. ex:- he will write, it will happen in future, so it denotes the time of future not past or present.
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Why future is a tense?

The future tense is as important/useful as the other tenses in daily communication. It is used to connote some action that we or others will follow in the time to come (whether short-term or long-term) or some event or action that will take place in the time to follow.
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Is there such thing as future tense?

In grammar, a future tense (abbreviated FUT) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected to happen in the future. An example of a future tense form is the French aimera, meaning "will love", derived from the verb aimer ("love").
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English Has No Future Tense!



What do you mean by future time?

1a : time that is to come. b : what is going to happen. 2 : an expectation of advancement or progressive development. 3 : something (such as a bulk commodity) bought for future acceptance or sold for future delivery —usually used in plural grain futures. 4a : the future tense of a language.
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What is expressing future time?

There are 4 ways of expressing the future tense in English: will, be going to, the present continuous, and the simple present.
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Which language has no future tense?

English has no future tense. We have plenty of ways of speaking about the future but there is no specific, single future tense like there is in the Romance languages. You can say, “Next year, at this time, I will be a year older” or “I am going to be a year older” but you cannot conjugate be to a future tense.
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What is the future tense rule?

Future Simple: will + base form of the verb. Be Going To: am, is, are + going to + base form of the verb. Shall: Shall + subject + base form of the verb? Future Progressive: will be + verbing. Present Simple and Present Progressive with Future Meaning.
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Can future tense examples?

They will be able to take the car if it's raining because I don't need it. I'll be able to do it tomorrow. You'll be able to buy a new car in some months. He'll be able to repair the bicycle.
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What's the difference between time and tense?

What is the difference between Time and Tense? Time is mainly used as a noun, but at times it is also used as a verb. Tense is used as an adjective, verb and noun. The use of tense as a noun is the most important.
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Does English have 2 tenses?

Strictly speaking, there are only two tenses in English: present and past.
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Is there a future perfect tense?

The verb tense we will look at now is the future perfect tense. The future perfect tense refers to an action or state that will finish sometime in the future before some other event in the future. The following sentence uses the future perfect tense: I will have cleaned my room before my parents come home.
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Is future tense first person?

The simple future tense is made up of shall plus the infinitive (without "to") in the first person, and will plus the infinitive in the second and third persons. The emphatic future tense reverses the auxiliary verbs: I will go, we will go.
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How do you write future time?

To write or speak in simple future tense, you will usually simply add the helping verbs 'will' or 'shall. ' Another way to write simple future tense is by using a form of 'be' plus 'going to.
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How do you teach future tense?

Tell students that in order to form the future simple tense we simply add 'will' before the root form of the verb. Write some verbs on the board (eat, play, read, write, go, etc.) and show students how to make the future tense by adding 'will'. For example, 'I will eat.
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What are four types of future tense?

There are four future verb tenses in English.
  • Simple future tense.
  • Future continuous tense.
  • Future perfect tense.
  • Future perfect continuous tense.
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Does Japanese have a future tense?

Japanese Verb Tenses. The English language has three basic verb tenses, past, present and future. There are other tenses in English, such as the passive and past progressive tense, but generally we tend to think in terms of “I went,” “I go,” and “I will go.” Japanese does not have separate present and future tenses.
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Does Arabic have a future tense?

Tense. There are three tenses in Arabic: the past tense (اَلْمَاضِي al-māḍī), the present tense (اَلْمُضَارِع al-muḍāriʿ) and the future tense.
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How many tenses are there?

There are three main tenses: past, present, and future. In English, each of these tenses can take four main aspects: simple, perfect, continuous (also known as progressive), and perfect continuous.
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Can we use future Simple Present tense?

The Present Simple Tense for Future Events

The present simple tense is used to talk about future events that have been scheduled. Examples would be meetings, timetables, airline schedules, etc. See the examples below.
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Is May a future tense?

There is no future tense, but may is used for talking about future possibilities: I may go to London next week.
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What is the difference between future tense and future perfect tense?

The future perfect tense is only for actions that will be complete before a specified point in the future. In other words, the action you're talking about must have a deadline. If you don't mention a deadline, use the simple future tense instead of the future perfect tense.
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What is future past tense?

In English grammar, the future-in-the-past is the use of "would or was/were going to" to refer to the future from the perspective of some point in the past. As illustrated below, other verbs in the past progressive can also be used to convey this future-in-the-past perspective. Also known as: Prediction in the past.
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