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Advanced Future Reference

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C1

Advanced Tense, Aspect, and Modality

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About This Resource

This C1 resource examines the range of English structures used to refer to future time and the meanings that guide their selection. It develops control of prediction, intention, arrangement, schedule, commitment, evidence, and register instead of treating the future as a single tense.

What You’ll Learn

• Compare will, be going to, present progressive, and present forms used for future reference.
• Choose a future structure according to prediction, intention, arrangement, schedule, or commitment.
• Interpret how present evidence and speaker viewpoint affect future reference.
• Adjust future forms to suit context, register, and the degree of present anchoring.

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