Present continuous with future meaning
Download as PPSX, PDF5 likes18,685 views
The present continuous tense can be used to refer to future events that have already been planned or scheduled, such as activities one has arranged to do on a specific date. This differs from using the future tense with "going to" which refers more to general or unfixed plans. Examples include asking what someone is doing tomorrow evening or stating that one is working next Sunday, both of which refer to planned future events expressed using the present continuous tense.
1 of 5
Downloaded 380 times
More Related Content
What's hot (20)
Ad
Viewers also liked (9)
Ad
More from joseluiscaro (20)
Recently uploaded (20)
Present continuous with future meaning
- 1. PRESENT CONTINUOUS WITH FUTURE MEANING
- 2. The present continuous can have a future meaning. We use it here instead of the future with “going to”.We use it when we are talking about something we have arranged (decided) to do, and the moment when we are going to do it.
- 3. FOR EXAMPLE:What are you doing tomorrow evening? I'm going to the theatre.I'm working next Sunday.Are you meeting your friends tomorrow? Yes, we're going out for a drink.
- 4. Allthepreviousexamples refertothingsthat, more thanplanned, are decided and fixed in time.“Goingto” and “presentcontinuouswithfuturemeaning” are very similar, butthesecondis more FIXED.
- 5. THE END