[M] [T] She must be sick. [M] [T] She must be angry. [M] [T] We must keep calm. [M] [T] He must be homesick.

It can only be used for present and future reference. When the past is involved, you use have to. Must is used: to express obligation….Must – Easy Learning Grammar.

Like all modals, ‘must’ has no future form; we have to use an alternative way of expressing the idea, for example: He will have to (future obligation) visit the doctor. ‘Must’ has no past tense form; once again, we have to use an alternative way of expressing the idea, for example: He had to visit the doctor.

Examples of Will: I will go to the cinema tonight. He will play tennis tomorrow. She will be happy with her exam results. They will take the bus to the South next week.

It will rain tomorrow (it’ll) She will be late (she’ll..) He will help us later (he’ll..) We will get married in September (we’ll)

The simple future tense is a verb tense that is used when an action is expected to occur in the future and be completed. For example, let’s suppose you have a meeting tomorrow at five o’clock. I will arrive at five o’clock. I will arrive is the simple future tense of the verb to arrive.

There are four future verb tenses in English.

• Simple future tense.
• Future continuous tense.
• Future perfect tense.
• Future perfect continuous tense.

The Traditional Rules for Forming the Future Tense with “Will” and “Shall”

The simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. This year, Jen will read War and Peace. It will be hard, but she’s determined to do it. Use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future.

The French use the futur simple (simple future tense) to express actions that will occur in the future. It equates to will in English; I will eat. For most verbs, add the following endings to the infinitive: -ai, -as, -a, -ons-, -ez, -ont. For regular -RE verbs omit the final E on the infinitive.

The formula for the future perfect tense is pretty simple: will have + [past participle]. It doesn’t matter if the subject of your sentence is singular or plural.

The Future Tense

• 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.

The future perfect continuous consists of will + have + been + the verb’s present participle (verb root + -ing). When we describe an action in the future perfect continuous tense, we are projecting ourselves forward in time and looking back at the duration of that activity.

four future tenses

The word “today” suggests present tense, The day has 24 hours, and the word “today” can be used in the past, present and future tenses.

Time is a concept which is related to our perception of reality. There are three times: past, present and future. Tense is a grammatical category which is marked by verb inflection and expresses when an event or action happens in the flow of time.

1. We can use the Present Perfect Tense to talk about a period of time that has not finished. I have played tennis 3 times this week. The period of time is ‘this week’.

tense (noun): a verb-based method used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action or state in relation to the time of speaking. ORIGIN Latin tempus “time” The concept of tense in English is a method that we use to refer to time – past, present and future.