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• I'm going shopping. I won't be very long.

• Will you be at work tomorrow?

Note that when we have a plan or intention to do

something in the future, we usually use other tenses or
expressions, such as the present continuous or going to.

Future Continuous

The Future Continuous tense is often used in English as a
way to talk about something happening at a given point in

the future.

How do we make the Future Continuous tense?

The structure of the Future Continuous tense is:

Subjec + auxiliary + auxiliary + main
t verb WIL verb BE verb
L

invariabl invariabl present
e e participl
e

Will be base +
ing

For negative sentences in the Future Continuous tense, we
insert not between will and be. For question sentences,

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