【阅读理解】英语没有语法上的“将来时态”

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English grammar provides a number of ways to indicate the future nature of an occurrence.

Some argue that English does not have a future tense—that is, a grammatical form that always indicates futurity—nor does it have a mandatory form for the expression of futurity.

However, there are several generally accepted ways to indicate futurity in English, and some of them—particularly those that use will or shall—are frequently described as future tense.

The will/shall future consists of the [3] with will being more common. For details see above.)

Several other English constructions commonly refer to the future:

• [2][4] The precise interpretation must be based on the context. In particular there is sometimes a distinction in usage between the will/shall future and the going-to future (although in some contexts they are interchangeable). For more information see the going-to future article.