B2 GrammarB2 Pre-advanced
Future in the past
Using future in the past
Sometimes, we talk about a past event and want to refer to something that happened in the future at that particular point in the past. When we want to express future time seen from the past, we use the past of the regular future forms.
Check the following sentences to see the future forms and their corresponding past forms.
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We can also talk about the future seen from the past using other ways to express future. Check the table below.
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