Predicting the future
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What are your predictions about the future? Neil and Pippa talk about what they think will happen in the future, and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of future predictions. Learn to use 'will', 'going to' and how to use the future perfect tense.
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1. going to Use 'going to' when something seems certain because of evidence. 2. will Use 'will' for general predictions, beliefs and predicted effects/responses to something. 3. by + time/date will have + past participle (the future perfect tense) This is often used for predictions personal to you. Use this to describe an action that you predict will be completed at some point in the future