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Definition of Future tense
1. Noun. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future.
Definition of Future tense
1. Noun. (grammar) The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Future Tense
Literary usage of Future tense
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge (1903)
"... future tense 472. The Future denotes an action or state that will 01 hereafter.
a. The Future may have the force of an Imperative (§ 449. 6. ..."
2. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The present participle minnende here in connection with the auxiliary werden
seems to be the modern future tense, but it is in fact a periphrastic present ..."
3. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"The future tense denotes future time. There are two forms: 1. I shall write.
This is the simple form, and represents an action that is yet to come. 2. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"Distinction between bequests of leasehold estate by words in the present and in
the future tense, as confined to the existing, or comprehending a future, ..."
5. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1901)
"Many languages have also an inflectional form for the future tense. ... The English
future tense is a verb-phrase consisting of the auxiliary verb shall or ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"T/te future tense.—The preterite tense of the Dravidian verb is generally formed
from the preterite participle by suffixing the pronominal terminations, ..."
7. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"It is occasionally used in the future tense, no doubt, as, for instance, 'may be
due to-day,' or 'may be due to-morrow.' I apprehend you may use it to ..."
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