Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar of the english verb phrase part 53', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | III. Futurish forms other than be going to 357 A word about weeds and mulching. Weeding is therapeutic to some a real bore to others but it has to be done if you are to stay in control of your garden rather than the other way round. www The Protestant marching season coincides with the preparations for elections to Northern Ireland s peace convention. If Ulster is to avoid a descent into communal violence then a mixture of delicacy and resolution will be required to maintain public order and sustain political progress. www If we are to be effective and authentic Oxfam staff volunteers and supporters must function as an integrated movement. www The present tense Both the progressive and the nonprogressive present tense can under certain conditions be used to talk about a situation whose post-present actualization is dependent on present circumstances The new teacher arrives tomorrow. We re leaving in a minute. This use of the present tense which represents a shift of temporal perspective is treated in detail in 10. 358 7. Absolute tense forms referring to the post-present IV. Summary The meaning of the future tense is The situation time is located in the post-present zone . The principal future tense form in English is will or shall present infinitive . Shall is only ever used in the first person and then only in restricted grammatical and pragmatic contexts . An alternative future tense form is be going to present infinitive which however can also be used as a futurish form see . The progressive future tense can be used without progressive meaning to express future as a matter of course Their centre forward is limping. I expect that his substitute will be playing the second half. Unlike future tense forms futurish forms always combine some sort of reference to the present with the location of a situation time in the postpresent zone. Because the location of a situation time in the future is not the main meaning of these forms reference
