aka Future Continuous

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE

Last updated: 2022-05-03

English's future progressive emphasises the course of an action which is happening or continuing at a certain time in the future. The action will have started before that moment but it will not have finished at that moment.

The future progressive is formed as follows:

• will + be + verb with -ing

For example

• I will be playing tennis at 10am tomorrow.
• She will not be sleeping when you telephone her.
• We'll be having dinner when the film starts.
• This time tomorrow, we'll be arriving at the airport!