§ 42. All the future tenses (the future indefinite (the simple future), the future continuous, the future perfect, the future perfect continuous) refer the actions they denote to the future. The difference between them is due to their different relation to the categories of aspect and perfect.
Their specific time reference limits their use in comparison with the present and the past tenses.
Among the future tenses the future indefinite is the most frequently used, while the use of the future continuous and the future perfect is rather limited, because the situations to which they are applicable seldom arise. As to the future perfect continuous, it is hardly ever used.
The future indefinite
§ 43. Formation. The future indefinite is formed analytically by means of the auxiliary verb shall for the first person singular or plural and willfor the second and third person singular or plural and the infinitive of the notional verb without the particle to.
The modern tendency is to use willfor all the persons*.
* In modern spoken English no person distinctions are found in future tenses. The only marker for any future tense is ‘ll used for all persons singular and plural (I’ll speak, He’ll speak). Historically ‘ll is the contracted form of will.
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