How to Talk about the Future
- Niamaat
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 1, 2022

To talk about the future you may use simple future, as well as simple present and present continuous. Here is how you do it!
Simple future
The weather will be beautiful.
Simple future + time phrase
The bus will leave at 9:30AM tomorrow.
Time phrase, + simple future
Tomorrow at 9:30AM, the bus will leave.
Simple present + time phrase
The bus leaves at 9:30 AM tomorrow.
Note: Without the future time phrase this sentence refers to the bus's routine. The bus normally leaves at 930AM on weekdays.
Time phrase, + simple present
Tomorrow at 9:30AM, the bus leaves.
Note: Without the future time phrase this sentence refers to the bus's routine. On weekdays, the bus normally leaves at 9:30AM.
Present continuous + time phrase
The bus is leaving at 9:30 AM tomorrow.
Note: Without the future time phrase this sentence refers to what the bus is doing now, at the moment of speaking or writing this sentence. The bus is leaving now.
Time phrase, + present continuous
Tomorrow at 9:30AM, the bus is leaving.
Note: Without the future time phrase this sentence refers to what the bus is doing now, at the moment of speaking or writing this sentence. Now, the bus is leaving.
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