🎾future 

future progressive

We use the future progressive (will be ...ing) to say that something will be in progress at a certain time in the future.

This time next Tuesday I'll be lying on the beach.

you won't be able to park here tomorrow; they'll be mending the road

📎polite enquiries 

A common use of the future progressive is to ask politely 'What have you already decided?' Compare:

Will you write to Oliver? (request or order)

Are you going to write to Oliver? (perhaps pressing for a decision)

Will you be writing to Oliver? (just asking about plans)

🥎future perfect

The future perfect (l will have driven/worked etc) can be used to say that something will have been completed by a certain time in the future.

We'll have finished planting the new trees by Wednesday.

This government will have ruined the country before the next election.

🏀The future perfect progressive (I will have been driving/working etc) is not very common. We can use

it to say how long something will have continued by a certain time.

By next summer I'll have been working here for eight years

🖋Note: other uses

 These tenses, and other structures with will, can be used not only to talk about the future, but also to express certainty about the past and present .

As you will have heard by now we are planning to open a new branch in Liverpool.

The world's top skiers will have been studying the course all morning in preparation for the first big event this afternoon.

🎾future in the past

structures When we are talking about the past, we often want to say that something was still in the future at that time. To express this idea, we can use the past forms of all the structures that are used to talk about the future:

present progressive➡️ past progressive:

 am/is/are going to➡️ was/were going to

will➡️would

 am/is/are to ➡️ was/were to

I was in a state of panic, because I was sitting my final exams in two days.

We were going to start a business if we could raise enough capital.

I had a feeling that things would soon turn dfficult.

So this was the town where I was to spend the winter. I didn't like the look of it

📌hidden in the future 

 Would and was/were fo are often used to express the idea that things were hidden in the future. 

She treated me like dirt. But she would live to regret it.

I thought we were saying goodbye for ever. But we were to meet again under very strange circumstances

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