GOING TO- FUTURE

Structure of Going to

There are several future forms. The one which is most often used in spoken English is 'going to', not 'will'.

The structure is:

subject + be + going + infinitive

The verb be is conjugated (past, present or future).

	subject	be	(not)	going	infinitive
+	I	am		going	to buy	a new car.
+	I'm			going	to go	swimming.
-	He	is	not	going	to take	the exam.
-	It	isn't		going	to rain.
?	Are	you		going	to paint	the house?

We use 'going to' when we want to talk about a plan for the future.

•  I'm going to see him later today.

•  They're going to launch it next month.

•  We're going to have lunch first.

•  She's going to see what she can do.

•  I'm not going to talk for very long.

Notice that this plan does not have to be for the near future.

•  When I retire I'm going to go back to Barbados to live.

•  In ten years time, I'm going to be boss of my own successful company.

We use 'going to' when we want to make a prediction based on evidence we can see now.

•  Look out! That cup is going to fall off.

•  Look at those black clouds. It's going to rain soon.

•  These figures are really bad. We're going to make a loss.

•  You look very tired. You're going to need to stop soon.

We can replace 'going to go' by 'going'.

•  I'm going out later.

•  She's going to the exhibition tomorrow.

Exercises on going to Future

•   form of going tofuture

•   positive sentences in going to future

•   negative sentences in going to future

•   question in going to future

•   mixed exercise in going to future

•   exercise on going to

•   statements

•   sentences and questions

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•   questions

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