Diantara semua jenis future tense, Simple Future Tense merupakan yang paling umum. Tenses ini digunakan pada banyak situasi seperti ketika membuat janji atau prediksi. Dalam membahas tenses ini kita akan membagi pembahasan menjadi 2 bagian, yaitu Simple Future Tense yang menggunakan will , dan Simple Future Tense yang menggunakan going to . Will Will merupakan modal verb yang digunakan untuk menunjukkan waktu di masa yang akan datang. Contoh: *. It will be sunny tomorrow. *. The new restaurant will open next week. Will ditempatkan setelah subjek dan sebelum kata kerja utama, dan dalam pertanyaan subjek dan will ditukar posisinya. Will sering disingkat menjadi ‘ll , misalnya he’ll , they’ll , dan bentuk negatif will not sering disingkat menjadi won’t . Afirmatif He will / He’ll stay at hometomorrow. They will / They’ll be very busy. Negatif I will not / won’t stay at home tomorrow. They will not / won’t be very busy. Pertanyaan Will he stay at home tomorrow? Will they be busy? Kegunaan Will digunakan untuk prediksi dan fakta di masa yang akandatang. Contoh: *. We’ll finish it by tonight. *. We have a lot of time. We won’t be late. *. “Where will you go next year?” “I’ll go to America.” Will juga digunakan untuk membuat respons spontan. Misalnya: Penawaran: – “The telephone’s ringing.” “I’ll answer it.” Janji: – “I’ll never leave you” – “I’ll give it to you tomorrow morning.” Permintaan: – “Will you wait for me this evening?” Will yang digunakan untuk menyatakan permintaan sifatnya cukup kuat dan serng digunakan ketika jawaban yang diharapkan atas permintaan tersebut adalah “Ya”. Jika tidak maka penggunaan can lebih sopan, contoh: “Can you wait for me this evening” Ancaman: - “You’ll be sorry!” Perintah: – “You will not eat my chocolate-chip cookies!” - Instant Lessons 2 – Intermediate – Peter WatcynJones -Penguin English Definition Simple Future tense is used to describing job or action that will to do (happened) at future. Formation of sentences 1. Positive ( + ) S + shall/ will + V1 Example : - I shall clean my bedroom - We will go to camping Or ( + ) S + be + going to + V1 Example : - I am going to play badminton - He is going to write a news Notes : "shall" just can use for subject "I and we" 2. Negative ( - ) S + shall/ will + not+ V1 Example : - I shan't buy a shoes - she won't clean the class Or ( - ) S + be + not +going to + V1 Ex : she is not going to give a present Notes : shall not = shan't, will not= won't 3. Interrogative ( ? ) Shall/ will + S + V ? Ex : Will we playing tennis? Or ( ? ) Be + S + going to + V ? Ex : are we going to camping ? Example: -Hold on. I'll get a pen. -We will [Image]see what we can do to help you. -Maybe we'll stay in and watch television tonight I think I'll go to the gym tomorrow. -I think I will have a holiday next year. I don't think I'll buy that car. Example: -It will rain tomorrow. -People won't go to Jupiter before the 22nd century. -Who do you think will get the job? Note: That when we have a plan or intention to do somethingin the future, we usually use other tenses or expressions, such as the present continuous tense orgoing to. Time signal: 1. Tomorrow… -Morning -Afternoon -Evening -Night 2. Next… -Time -Week -Month -Year -January 3. Tonight 4. The day after tomorrow 5. Soon 6. Later 7. Two, three more days 8. Two, three days later 9. By and by