Won't wait

It's a bit cold in this room. - Is it? I'll turnon the heating then. Close to the given meaning is the use of the Future Simple in promises, offers, warnings (often in the principal clause of a complex conditional sentence).

I will lendyou the money you need.

I won't tell anybody, I promise.

Mr Brown will pickyou upat the airport.

Thank you for lending me the money. I'll payyou back on Friday.

If you eat too much of that curry, you'll geta stomach ache.

4. Enquiry for an instruction, recommendation, advice in interrogative
sentences (often in rheuthorical questions). These are addressed to the 1st
person singular or plural and take "shall".

Shall we do it orally?

What shall I do now?

Shall 1 send you a fax? Sometimes questions with "shall" are asked to offer help.

Shall I help you?

Shall I carry your bag?

Shall I water the roses now? Interrogative requests, instructions, warningsaddressed to the 2nd person take "will".

Willyou bequiet, please?

Willyou getme a paper while you're out?

Note: 1) The Future Simple in the negative form can be used to talk about refusals, resistance or reluctance, to do something.

The door won't open.

Thepen won't write.

5. "will/shall be able to", "will/shall have to" are used to replace the modal verbs "can" and "must" in the future.

One day we will be able to live without wars.

I think I will be able to speak English quite well in a few months.

When you leave school you'll have to find a job.

6.will/'ll is used for typical behaviour

She'll sit talking to herself for hours.

I'm always asking him to come but he won't

As compared to the Present Simple for habitual actions, the Future Simple adds a note of greater certainty to an utterance and is more frequently used in conversational speech.

She is a very hard-working student and attends classes regularly.

She is a very hard-working student in general but sometimes she will skip alecture or two.

7. In Indirect Speech the Future Simple Tense is replaced by the Future in the Past (according to the rules of sequence of tenses).

The adverbials of future time tomorrow, next week, etc. are replaced by the next day, the next week, etc.

They said they would winthe match the next week.

She informed us she would deliverthe lecture the next month.

The thief said he would hitme unless I toldhim where the money was.

She wondered if she would goto college if she gotgood grades in her exams.

Practice

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