Take your verbs into the future with future tense verbs: What’s a future tense verb? We don’t mean they have rocketships and robots, we mean they describe something that will happen later. Learn how to change regular verbs to future tense, and learn some common future tense verbs too, with our worksheets, activities, and games for teaching future tense verbs.
Being able to identify and indicate setting is an important aspect to understanding and comprehending fiction and non-fiction texts. One aspect of \ setting is determining when something is taking place. Using the correct verb tense, like past, present, and future is an important aspect of this.
Unlike past and present tenses, future tense verbs do not have inflected forms. This means there is no form of the verb alone that indicates future tense. Instead, in order to convey the future tense, we make use of helping verbs along with the base form of the verb.
He WILL study - the use of the helping verb “will” indicates that the studying will take place in the future.
We SHALL win the game - again, using “shall” shows that this is something that is yet to happen.
We can can also indicate future tense by pairing the infinitive form of the verb with a form of the verb “go”:
I am going to dance - “to dance” is the infinitive of dance. Being paired with “going” makes this a future tense verb.
We can also indicate that a verb is going to take place in the future by applying context with the words around it.
I am going tomorrow - without adding the word “tomorrow” this would be a present tense usage. Adding “tomorrow”, though, makes this a future tense usage of a form of go.
Practicing the different methods of declaring a verb as future tense using the resources provided above by Education.com may help students use the appropriate method for declaring future tense verbs.
