Ok, what do you think? Should we use the future tense? What's easiest for you? 📝Also, don't forget to get the free PDF here 👉🏼 ewl.info/future-tense-pdf All other links at ewl.info
As an Englishman, I love watching your videos...the clarity you provide gives me an appreciation of how well my foreign colleagues around the world speak English.
The brits, Australians, Irish, Scottish, Americans, Canadians must be proud that their language has become the most important one globally. I wish I was fluent in English😢
Interesting. I'm a native English speaker, and I had no idea our future tense was so complicated. It got my brain tired, but it seems so easy when we do it! Probably because we don't learn them as tenses when we're kids or study them as separate beings. I guess there is some advantage to having your native language be a confusing one, so you don't suffer in learning it. I like how you give the feeling behind each example, and why you might use one phrase, but not another.
@@konradm6514 LOL, not attracted by that, but it's fun to listen - you learn things you never realized about your own language when you hear it explained for others!
I'm a visual learner so it makes even more sense to see the future tense being used opposed to the other ways to learn. It's a lot easier to understand why you use it. I like the creativity of the language the way you teach it.
I stumbled across a fantastic resource that significantly improved my understanding of forming future tenses in English. As a visual learner, I appreciate your clear and straightforward instructions, including numerous examples to illustrate each point. The combination of lecture-style teaching and practical exercises helped me to consolidate the lesson and boosted my confidence in my understanding of the tenses. I heartily recommend this resource. Thank you, Lucy for creating such an informative and engaging tutorial!
I'm 40 years old, half Dutch and half English growing up in both countries missing a lot of grammar and being told that sometimes I don't make much sense. Of all these years on RUclips (17) I never thought to find a channel like this! Finally, I can make more sense haha. Thanks for sharing, a lot for me to catch up on
English is not my first language, but I've learned it organically (games, music, TV shows, etc.), so I wasn't aware of all the rules you mentioned in the video. Still, I followed them naturally because they seemed "obvious" (for no reason). These types of instructional videos only affirm my conviction that English is a complex language to study but an easy language to learn. Complex due to the multitudes of rules and exceptions to those rules, and easy because the amount of content in English is simply endless, so you can completely immerse yourself in the language and force your brain to understand it naturally as if you were a native speaker.
I'm not really doing any tests or specifically trying to improve my English, but I do like to see your videos because I can't see one of them without smiling... Thank you for that, Lucy 😘
Having a Mother tongue(Romanian) with a very definite grammar structure is very hard not to think of "future" as a tense. When you have a structured grammar you always long to look for the analogue structure in the language you're trying to learn 😊
Future *is* a tense. English using extra particles to describe future doesn't change the fact. According to this _technical non-existing future tense_ , tenses don't exist in Chinese at all. But they do.
This video is a game-changer! Challenging common misconceptions about future tenses in English, it provides an eye-opening grammar lesson. The approach to real-life language use is invaluable. Thanks for clarifying and making grammar more accessible! 📚🗣🚀
I've been trying to teach this for more than twenty years. Your video is so succinct and well explained. I wish I could have shown this to my students years ago. Brilliant and thank you. Also, I do wish I had a bun.
Someone who makes a comment such as "there is no future tense" as a way to try diminishing your competence as a teacher is not really worth anyone's attention, however, I should congratulate you on this masterpiece you have produced as an asnwer...LOL...and mind you, only successful professionals get to have haters. Thank you very much for this amazing video. XoXo
I just died laughing at Lucy going full British and complaining about the weather 😂 I recently watched a video with some bikers bumping into his Majesty King Charles in the middle of a moorland road in Scotland, and what did they talked about?? THE WEATHER 😂😂 Greetings from Colombia ❤
Just before watching this video, I had just finished watching a video on "creaky voice" or "voice fry" and it was all I could, mostly, concentrate on while you spoke. It was a good explanation on "future tense". I am sure it will help some people with their grammar.
Interesting approach. I think it's this a big advantage about English and German. Not sure about other Germanic languages. "Real" future tense in Romance languages is always a pain, specially if you're not used to it.
I think I can speak for all of us, it's abundantly clear that the future is not perfect, so the masters got it right. But yours is really an amazing video! Cheers for it!
I’m a native English speaker and I can’t believe I never realized we don’t have a future tense in English!😂 Thank you for a fun and very informative video.
Lucy, your idea of looking back from the future worked well for me. And a demonstration of your fancy knot was a bonus.))) I have finally got the core of the Future Perfect tense. Thank you!
Always a pleasure listening to you, Lucy! Crystal clear explanations sometimes not so obvious even for a person having tons of grammar books (like me :-))
With my math/logic problems, I gave up on learning the structure of grammar long ago. I still sometimes stumble. But, because I was a prolific reader, I learned the proper way to phrase my writing and speaking (most of the time). I enjoy Lucy's videos. 😊.
I agree with everything you've explained here. I found the video pretty complete. Some linguists talk about the tenses being "past" and "non-past" (which would include the present and the future). In any case, the most common use of the word "tense" is the one you've mentioned and that's actually the meaning which appears in dictionaries. The distinction between the two different meanings of "tense" makes sense in the context of theoretical linguistics, but it may be a bit obscure or even useless in applied linguistics, as English teaching.
I definitely agree it’s better to teach others in simple way. But at the same time teachers should be aware of this in case of some curious student who likes asking questions😮 thanks for video.
A very nice and comprehensive overview of the "future" in English. Reminds me of the overview in today's text books in Bavarian "Gymnasium". But at the end of those grammar units you can read that the differences between these "variants" aren't that important any more today because most native speakers don't follow the rules anyway ... Just watch any modern film or tv show, especially the difference between will future simple and going-to has mostly disappeared.
Lucy, thanks so much for your clarification on tenses. I sometimes agree with people who say that, from a linguistic standpoint, English technically does not have a future tense when you compare it with Romance-based languages such as French and Spanish. However, suppose one says that English has no future tense based on verb inflections. In that case, one disregards most other Germanic languages, such as German and Swedish, for having a future tense since they also use modal verbs to indicate the future. One could also disregard languages such as Chinese and Japanese for adding constructions in front or back of the verb that aren't related to conjugation to indicate "future" tenses. I find that lens kind of narrow. But at the end of the day, it is a future tense, and we weirdly use either the modal auxiliary "will" or the set phrase "be + going to" as the indicator. Like you, I try to keep it simple for my ESL students. I indicate three tenses in English: present, past, and future, and we fill in the rest as we go along (continuous/progressive, perfect, and the perfect-continuous aspects). (The subjunctive mood is a whole different kettle of fish.) Thanks again!
I just watch Lucy to hear and see her. What a lovely person. What a lovely voice and good spoken English. My English won’t get better no matter how often I watch her videos. 😂
One of the best grammar video tutorials I've seen. everything is perfect in it - the composition, the rhythm, the content and, of course, the actor. Thank You ( RU, Samara)
Hello Lucy! I'm very excited to watch your online videos about how can we use the future tense without the modal verb will. Yeah, that's right, I have taught my students the same. But, what about the use of shall?
In obselescently posh RP English, 1st person singular and plural: I shall, we shall (not I will, we will which just about everyone else uses). In posh RP English 'shall is also used to indicate compulsion. British judges used to condemn prisoners to death with these words: "You shall be hanged by the neck until dead".
It's been a while since I've watched any of your videos. I was pleasantly surprised by how much more relaxed and charismatic you've become. Also for the editing
Hi Lucy, thanks for your video. What about "shall"? I belong to a generation that was taught "shall" must be used instead of "will" with I/we - if I remember correctly - to express the future. Obviously modern English, especially American English, has moved away from that old usage but "shall" is still in use for example in legal documents. As you said there is no future tense in English and, to me, will conveys decision or willingness when shall conveys duty. Could you do a video about that? Thanks
In British English, 'shall' is definitely still in use, but only in questions in the first person (singular and plural). Shall we go? Shall I open the window? ('Shall' here really means "is it OK if..."?) We can also use shall to ask advice: Where shall I put this?
Yes. I wasn't even aware of this use of 'shall' until I moved to Ireland, where you're much more likely to hear 'will I open the window?' and 'where will I put this?'.@@pokerformuppets
Absolutely the best grammatical, tense explanation I've ever heard regarding the future in English. I wonder if there is such an explanation for other languages such as Italian and Portuguese.
It's interesting that in Spanish we do have a proper future tense, but we rarely use it. For example, though we CAN say "Comeremos pizza esta noche", we actually say "Vamos a comer pizza esta noche". At least that's how it is here in Argentina.
First, I need to confess, I am a big fan of yours 😊. Thank you for a short intro into "future tenses". Just a couple of questions. First, back in 80s when first studying the English grammar and tenses in particular, for future module verbs we used "shall" for I and we pronouns. I get it it has been simplified since then? Second I made some investigation and I see I have been using it wrong, I assume. The future perfect continuous. I thought that "would" is sort of a rule to be used there. But as I understand, there's a pack of conditions for using will or would in future tense. Anyway, I always loved thise fantastic future tense constructions, when speaking about something that should have been happened before something else will arrive...
I’m impressed that someone who’s clearly not even American made the effort to learn so much about our language. Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 One tiny correction: It’s pronounced sked-jul, not shed-jul.
Weather.. 😅😅😅 As for future, it's ok to me to call them tenses, because you do make the combination with aspects, so it makes sense to me. In Portuguese we have what we call synthetic and analytic tenses, the first being expressed in endings (morphologically) and the second with auxiliary verbs (syntactically). To me that's what happens in English, your language developed to have an analytical future.. Anyway. Thanks for the video! 😉
Agreed ! But you already brought that lesson here ! Why isn't now correct to use Future ? Let's not make English so difficult while it's not as we think, some RUclips English teachers make it be.
Love this video. Very clear explanation. I often tell my students there's no such thing as 'future' tense and it's a huge paradigm shift for them! Minds blown indeed! We also need to explain there aren't three conditionals and reported speech one tense back rule is nonsense
Hi Lucy, I came across (and watched with great interest) your latest clip before I noticed your related email. First intrigued by its title and then having read its content I can't say I was convinced by the relevance of the "hate comment" approach that you chose but the video was definitely worth the watch time. Thank you as always ❤
Agree with you... I've never seen only a single hate comment in her videos, and also, how could someone make it with so fun and nice videos? And she still keeps such a confidence... I don't believe her email 😅
Oooooh I do get a lot 😅 I’m happy to receive corrections/suggestions and constructive criticism, but some of the other comments are awful. We have pretty good filters in place now, so anything sexual or violent gets flagged automatically and is reviewed by my team so that I don’t have to see them. We have noticed that sexual comments have decreased since I got married, which is interesting. Perhaps they are more worried about offending my husband 😂😅 Really glad that you both enjoy my videos! Love commenters like you 🙌🏻❤️
I absolutely love your videos! It always gives me great insight in my knowledge about English and helps me organise it. Most of all I love your way of inserting little jokes and stories 😍
So you don't like the British weather!😅 i am from libya. I've lived in Britain for 6 years in the past and was obsessed with the rainy weather there ❤ coz my origin country is absolutely freaking hot most of the year mothns.😅 I miss the beautiful cold weather of Britain so much. Love ur videos. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
You made this so easy to understand,it just solved ALL my troubles to understand how to build sentences with the correct tenses, greetings from Brazil!
Fully agree. It was a great decision not to use the future tense in English; otherwise, the size of the English dictionary would be much larger because there would be many irregular verbs for the future tense also, and we would have to remember them! Thanks to the modal verb 'will'!
#gazaunderattack .. Educate yourself.. Read the history about Palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.. Save Palestine from Zi'on'ist entity occupation❌☢️ .. You don't need to be a Muslim to support Palestine you just need to be a human 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿
A very important aspect of "going to" is that it often times gets contracted to "gonna." Example, "I'm gonna play the piano this afternoon." Although, I think this is more the case in American English than it is in British English. Not quite sure, though. I just know that it occurs where I live.
It's beatifull, useful and nice. I knew about the future tense(s) but I didn't know it so well explained! Maybe someday YOU WILL become the most popular teacher ever.
I was not aware that grammatical tense necessarily only applies if there's a corresponding verb conjugation. In Scandinavian we also only have two temporal verb inflections and rely a lot on auxiliary verbs, just like in English, but nobody ever told me that that means that the other tenses don't really count. A quick glance at wikipedia seems to confirm that in English it's viewed this way though.
Always thought of future tenses as of the weird ones. Especially because the verb isn’t changing. Now everything falls into place, thanks for the great summary.
Ever since high school I have been ignoring or avoiding the grammar theory and rules and just went with my intuition and I think I am familiar in practice with all the forms you mention in this video. I feel lucky that I don’t have to know all this “meta-terminology”. 😅
I love FUTURE of Beautiful British English. Besides where there's "Will", there's future (I bet you will like that 😉) Amazing bun, bellisima 🤌🏻👌🏻 Summer in Croatia 🎉🥂🧡
Your aesthetic qualities radiate with an exquisite harmony, encapsulating a captivating blend of physical, intellectual, and emotional attributes, which collectively render you a manifestation of unparalleled beauty.🥺🥺
I guess that the main problem which creates an obsitcle between a native speaker and a student is that the native speaker knows the nuances and tints of one's own language and thinks about it easily, while the learner has to came up with one's own tint which have to corresponds one's native language . The lesson is great , it would be good to make an infasis on the detales.
No future is particularly fun for me because our German Swiss dialects don't have a future tense either, which, in the context of this highly structured language, is a bit surprising. "I'm going to..." is one way to indicate future. You can also use the present with context eg "tomorrow". Obviously tomorrow is in the future, so the scene is set, as it were. We say: "tomorrow I'm not at home" just like you can in English.
If I say "I'm going shopping later" it's short for "I'll be going shopping later" rather than "I'm going to go shopping". In my mind the word 'going' is associated with the action of shopping, not the future tense. Apart from that, I found your video interesting and educational, even though I'm a native English speaker.
![ALL English Future Tenses Explained in 12 Minutes [including GOING TO]](/img/1.gif)
Ok, what do you think? Should we use the future tense? What's easiest for you? 📝Also, don't forget to get the free PDF here 👉🏼 ewl.info/future-tense-pdf
All other links at ewl.info
+englishwithlucy *Don't forget **_would,_** **_shall_** and **_should_** when discussing the future tenses.*
Thanks For your lovely lesson today. I Do Enjoy it.
Good point@@BCSchmerker ! How about a video on modals soon? I fancy revamping my older version now that I have these awesome video editors!
Awesome 👍🏼❤
Should we wait for a video about your knot or not? ;))
Lucy's pronunciation is the clearest I've ever heard. I wish everybody spoke like her.
it's very clear to me too, and really I appreciate her.
Yes, her tongue is not stuck pressing the R key 😅 she have a fluid transition between consonants just like Latin based language speaker's
Absolutely
The best R. P English of all times. I could spend all day listening to her voice. ❤
As an Englishman, I love watching your videos...the clarity you provide gives me an appreciation of how well my foreign colleagues around the world speak English.
The brits, Australians, Irish, Scottish, Americans, Canadians must be proud that their language has become the most important one globally. I wish I was fluent in English😢
You took the words out of my mouth!
I am a Bangladeshi. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
She's British, so she's not your foreign colleague as you said you're an Englishman !😁
@@torkzilla3543 Jolly good.
Interesting. I'm a native English speaker, and I had no idea our future tense was so complicated. It got my brain tired, but it seems so easy when we do it! Probably because we don't learn them as tenses when we're kids or study them as separate beings. I guess there is some advantage to having your native language be a confusing one, so you don't suffer in learning it. I like how you give the feeling behind each example, and why you might use one phrase, but not another.
How anyone can learn English as an adult amazes me
Our language is simple compared to most others, sadly. I'm currently learning Hungarian. :)
Why you guys watching this ? ..I know she is a pretty lady...lol.
@@konradm6514 LOL, not attracted by that, but it's fun to listen - you learn things you never realized about your own language when you hear it explained for others!
I'm a visual learner so it makes even more sense to see the future tense being used opposed to the other ways to learn. It's a lot easier to understand why you use it. I like the creativity of the language the way you teach it.
I stumbled across a fantastic resource that significantly improved my understanding of forming future tenses in English. As a visual learner, I appreciate your clear and straightforward instructions, including numerous examples to illustrate each point. The combination of lecture-style teaching and practical exercises helped me to consolidate the lesson and boosted my confidence in my understanding of the tenses. I heartily recommend this resource. Thank you, Lucy for creating such an informative and engaging tutorial!
I'm 40 years old, half Dutch and half English growing up in both countries missing a lot of grammar and being told that sometimes I don't make much sense. Of all these years on RUclips (17) I never thought to find a channel like this! Finally, I can make more sense haha. Thanks for sharing, a lot for me to catch up on
English is not my first language, but I've learned it organically (games, music, TV shows, etc.), so I wasn't aware of all the rules you mentioned in the video. Still, I followed them naturally because they seemed "obvious" (for no reason). These types of instructional videos only affirm my conviction that English is a complex language to study but an easy language to learn. Complex due to the multitudes of rules and exceptions to those rules, and easy because the amount of content in English is simply endless, so you can completely immerse yourself in the language and force your brain to understand it naturally as if you were a native speaker.
Same here.
Due to your videos I have passed my second semester of graduation in mass communication with A grade and 70% marks. U r an incredible teacher.
10,2 mil followers
@@alzbetakluckova1288hello how r u alzbetakluckova
"u r"? Really?
U r ? 70% seems right.
Yes, "u r" is hideous and most definitely not English.
I'm not really doing any tests or specifically trying to improve my English, but I do like to see your videos because I can't see one of them without smiling... Thank you for that, Lucy 😘
I can listen to her for hours🌸 What a soft, nice way of speaking!
Having a Mother tongue(Romanian) with a very definite grammar structure is very hard not to think of "future" as a tense. When you have a structured grammar you always long to look for the analogue structure in the language you're trying to learn 😊
Future *is* a tense. English using extra particles to describe future doesn't change the fact.
According to this _technical non-existing future tense_ , tenses don't exist in Chinese at all. But they do.
@@MaGaOI'd rather say English doesn't have a _synthetic_ future tense, but it does have analytic ones.
@@MaGaO Chinese has a future aspect, all languages have aspect
@@erkinalp
Never said otherwise.
Same in Portuguese 😁
We don't talk about the future in the UK because it's another reason to get depressed. And with winter ahead, we just can't handle any more. 🤡
😬 😏
Your future is Islam. Sad but true.
😂😂
@@redrosin99😮
@@redrosin99 what?????😬🤨
This video is a game-changer! Challenging common misconceptions about future tenses in English, it provides an eye-opening grammar lesson. The approach to real-life language use is invaluable. Thanks for clarifying and making grammar more accessible! 📚🗣🚀
I've been trying to teach this for more than twenty years. Your video is so succinct and well explained. I wish I could have shown this to my students years ago. Brilliant and thank you.
Also, I do wish I had a bun.
I just want to emphasize the quality of your videos. It's truly a pleasure from the technical point of view. Thanks!
Someone who makes a comment such as "there is no future tense" as a way to try diminishing your competence as a teacher is not really worth anyone's attention, however, I should congratulate you on this masterpiece you have produced as an asnwer...LOL...and mind you, only successful professionals get to have haters. Thank you very much for this amazing video. XoXo
I just died laughing at Lucy going full British and complaining about the weather 😂 I recently watched a video with some bikers bumping into his Majesty King Charles in the middle of a moorland road in Scotland, and what did they talked about?? THE WEATHER 😂😂 Greetings from Colombia ❤
The verb phrase to use in this situation is "bumping into", not "coming into". This is the verb for when you unexpectedly meet someone.
@@bethanyhunt2704 Holy crap! what a blunder! thanks for letting me know. I have corrected it.
Just before watching this video, I had just finished watching a video on "creaky voice" or "voice fry" and it was all I could, mostly, concentrate on while you spoke. It was a good explanation on "future tense". I am sure it will help some people with their grammar.
I watched that guy earlier today!
Interesting approach. I think it's this a big advantage about English and German. Not sure about other Germanic languages. "Real" future tense in Romance languages is always a pain, specially if you're not used to it.
I think I can speak for all of us, it's abundantly clear that the future is not perfect, so the masters got it right.
But yours is really an amazing video! Cheers for it!
your voice now constantly sounds in my head when I think about the correct pronunciation! your accent is amazing, the best I've ever heard😘
bizum atakabiji
I’m a native English speaker and I can’t believe I never realized we don’t have a future tense in English!😂 Thank you for a fun and very informative video.
A really interesting video as usual. The insert about the weather is also very organic and funny. Thank you so much!
Lucy, your idea of looking back from the future worked well for me. And a demonstration of your fancy knot was a bonus.))) I have finally got the core of the Future Perfect tense. Thank you!
I'm watching from Ethiopia.... thanks Lucy
I don’t know how I’d ever get a firm grasp of English without you
Always a pleasure listening to you, Lucy! Crystal clear explanations sometimes not so obvious even for a person having tons of grammar books (like me :-))
With my math/logic problems, I gave up on learning the structure of grammar long ago. I still sometimes stumble. But, because I was a prolific reader, I learned the proper way to phrase my writing and speaking (most of the time). I enjoy Lucy's videos. 😊.
I agree with everything you've explained here. I found the video pretty complete.
Some linguists talk about the tenses being "past" and "non-past" (which would include the present and the future). In any case, the most common use of the word "tense" is the one you've mentioned and that's actually the meaning which appears in dictionaries. The distinction between the two different meanings of "tense" makes sense in the context of theoretical linguistics, but it may be a bit obscure or even useless in applied linguistics, as English teaching.
I fully agree. That's the way it's used in several other languages as well. We construct the future tenses in very similar ways in Swedish.
Wow, you’ve worded this so well! Thank you 🙏🏻 I could have used your comment when I was putting together the script for this video 😂❤️
I definitely agree it’s better to teach others in simple way. But at the same time teachers should be aware of this in case of some curious student who likes asking questions😮 thanks for video.
A very nice and comprehensive overview of the "future" in English.
Reminds me of the overview in today's text books in Bavarian "Gymnasium".
But at the end of those grammar units you can read that the differences between these "variants" aren't that important any more today because most native speakers don't follow the rules anyway ...
Just watch any modern film or tv show, especially the difference between will future simple and going-to has mostly disappeared.
Dear Lucy I live in Croatia, so I liked your plan for spending summer on a yacht in my country!😉 Great lesson! Thnx
Future perfect simple: "it's like we walk into the future and then turn around and look back." I love this description.
I'm so glad there is no future tense in English. I will become very excited going forward about that fact.
I'm going to delighted that I'll no longer use the future tense. :-)
Lucy, thanks so much for your clarification on tenses. I sometimes agree with people who say that, from a linguistic standpoint, English technically does not have a future tense when you compare it with Romance-based languages such as French and Spanish. However, suppose one says that English has no future tense based on verb inflections. In that case, one disregards most other Germanic languages, such as German and Swedish, for having a future tense since they also use modal verbs to indicate the future. One could also disregard languages such as Chinese and Japanese for adding constructions in front or back of the verb that aren't related to conjugation to indicate "future" tenses. I find that lens kind of narrow. But at the end of the day, it is a future tense, and we weirdly use either the modal auxiliary "will" or the set phrase "be + going to" as the indicator.
Like you, I try to keep it simple for my ESL students. I indicate three tenses in English: present, past, and future, and we fill in the rest as we go along (continuous/progressive, perfect, and the perfect-continuous aspects). (The subjunctive mood is a whole different kettle of fish.) Thanks again!
Thank you so much for posting this. It helps a lot ❤😊
I just watch Lucy to hear and see her. What a lovely person. What a lovely voice and good spoken English.
My English won’t get better no matter how often I watch her videos. 😂
Thank you, Lucy!
It's the best way to make people understand English grammar. Watching your videos is a pleasure.
One of the best grammar video tutorials I've seen. everything is perfect in it - the composition, the rhythm, the content and, of course, the actor. Thank You ( RU, Samara)
Better search US En channels though. British English is irrelevant in Russia imo
Hello Lucy!
I'm very excited to watch your online videos about how can we use the future tense without the modal verb will. Yeah, that's right, I have taught my students the same. But, what about the use of shall?
In obselescently posh RP English, 1st person singular and plural: I shall, we shall (not I will, we will which just about everyone else uses). In posh RP English 'shall is also used to indicate compulsion. British judges used to condemn prisoners to death with these words: "You shall be hanged by the neck until dead".
It's been a while since I've watched any of your videos. I was pleasantly surprised by how much more relaxed and charismatic you've become. Also for the editing
Hi Lucy, thanks for your video. What about "shall"? I belong to a generation that was taught "shall" must be used instead of "will" with I/we - if I remember correctly - to express the future. Obviously modern English, especially American English, has moved away from that old usage but "shall" is still in use for example in legal documents. As you said there is no future tense in English and, to me, will conveys decision or willingness when shall conveys duty. Could you do a video about that? Thanks
i love shall
In British English, 'shall' is definitely still in use, but only in questions in the first person (singular and plural). Shall we go? Shall I open the window? ('Shall' here really means "is it OK if..."?) We can also use shall to ask advice: Where shall I put this?
Yes. I wasn't even aware of this use of 'shall' until I moved to Ireland, where you're much more likely to hear 'will I open the window?' and 'where will I put this?'.@@pokerformuppets
2:42 - thank you very much, that is so nice of you
This is a really amusing and interesting video. You do so well in these lessons. Thank you.
Absolutely the best grammatical, tense explanation I've ever heard regarding the future in English. I wonder if there is such an explanation for other languages such as Italian and Portuguese.
Great lessons with explanation in clarity! I do not know there is a use of future perfect continuous tense til NOW. Thanks! 😃😀
It's interesting that in Spanish we do have a proper future tense, but we rarely use it. For example, though we CAN say "Comeremos pizza esta noche", we actually say "Vamos a comer pizza esta noche".
At least that's how it is here in Argentina.
I just love watching your videos So informative and funny too Thanks for being you Lucy ! 👏👏👏
you look sooo good and your lesson is soo entertaining and helpful!!!
First, I need to confess, I am a big fan of yours 😊.
Thank you for a short intro into "future tenses". Just a couple of questions. First, back in 80s when first studying the English grammar and tenses in particular, for future module verbs we used "shall" for I and we pronouns. I get it it has been simplified since then?
Second I made some investigation and I see I have been using it wrong, I assume. The future perfect continuous. I thought that "would" is sort of a rule to be used there. But as I understand, there's a pack of conditions for using will or would in future tense.
Anyway, I always loved thise fantastic future tense constructions, when speaking about something that should have been happened before something else will arrive...
10 ways of using "would" ruclips.net/video/RK0qMKtaPaY/видео.html
I have never had such a beautiful teacher.
Loved the lesson 💕🧡 Thanks !!!
I’m impressed that someone who’s clearly not even American made the effort to learn so much about our language. Bravo! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 One tiny correction: It’s pronounced sked-jul, not shed-jul.
Weather.. 😅😅😅
As for future, it's ok to me to call them tenses, because you do make the combination with aspects, so it makes sense to me. In Portuguese we have what we call synthetic and analytic tenses, the first being expressed in endings (morphologically) and the second with auxiliary verbs (syntactically). To me that's what happens in English, your language developed to have an analytical future..
Anyway. Thanks for the video! 😉
Agreed !
But you already brought that lesson here ! Why isn't now correct to use Future ? Let's not make English so difficult while it's not as we think, some RUclips English teachers make it be.
You’re great Lucy, thanks so much for your help! ❤
Love this video. Very clear explanation. I often tell my students there's no such thing as 'future' tense and it's a huge paradigm shift for them! Minds blown indeed! We also need to explain there aren't three conditionals and reported speech one tense back rule is nonsense
This video is a gem. Nice decision on breaking the rules.
Hi Lucy, I came across (and watched with great interest) your latest clip before I noticed your related email. First intrigued by its title and then having read its content I can't say I was convinced by the relevance of the "hate comment" approach that you chose but the video was definitely worth the watch time. Thank you as always ❤
Agree with you... I've never seen only a single hate comment in her videos, and also, how could someone make it with so fun and nice videos? And she still keeps such a confidence... I don't believe her email 😅
Oooooh I do get a lot 😅 I’m happy to receive corrections/suggestions and constructive criticism, but some of the other comments are awful. We have pretty good filters in place now, so anything sexual or violent gets flagged automatically and is reviewed by my team so that I don’t have to see them.
We have noticed that sexual comments have decreased since I got married, which is interesting. Perhaps they are more worried about offending my husband 😂😅
Really glad that you both enjoy my videos! Love commenters like you 🙌🏻❤️
Lucy is a fantastic teacher. She's voice is amazing ❤❤❤
0:33 0:33 0:33 0:33
I absolutely love your videos! It always gives me great insight in my knowledge about English and helps me organise it.
Most of all I love your way of inserting little jokes and stories 😍
Thank you ❤️🙌🏻 I love inserting them and I must say that my editors have been killing it recently! 🇺🇦👨🏻👩🏼🦱🧒🏻🙌🏻
My best English teacher 📚 in the globe 🌍 I love you from South Africa 🇿🇦
So you don't like the British weather!😅 i am from libya. I've lived in Britain for 6 years in the past and was obsessed with the rainy weather there ❤ coz my origin country is absolutely freaking hot most of the year mothns.😅 I miss the beautiful cold weather of Britain so much. Love ur videos.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
You made this so easy to understand,it just solved ALL my troubles to understand how to build sentences with the correct tenses, greetings from Brazil!
Who is watching from Bangladesh & india 😊
Not I 😊
Neither I. Sorry! 😅
@@alanjaques5316 okay
@@markfowler9173 okay
I am from India.❤️
Fully agree. It was a great decision not to use the future tense in English; otherwise, the size of the English dictionary would be much larger because there would be many irregular verbs for the future tense also, and we would have to remember them! Thanks to the modal verb 'will'!
#gazaunderattack .. Educate yourself.. Read the history about Palestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸.. Save Palestine from Zi'on'ist entity occupation❌☢️ .. You don't need to be a Muslim to support Palestine you just need to be a human 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿
Her pronunciation is actually intriguing, so I really appreciate her hard work.
But Lucy, your future is "will." I mean, Will, your husband. So there's a future in your life haha!
lame joke fr dawg💀💀💀😭😭😭🙏🙏
@@praveenmishra8583I cried myself to sleep after reading
A very important aspect of "going to" is that it often times gets contracted to "gonna." Example, "I'm gonna play the piano this afternoon." Although, I think this is more the case in American English than it is in British English. Not quite sure, though. I just know that it occurs where I live.
I've just found this channel and I already love you
It's beatifull, useful and nice. I knew about the future tense(s) but I didn't know it so well explained! Maybe someday YOU WILL become the most popular teacher ever.
Your teaching method is fantastic ❤
I was not aware that grammatical tense necessarily only applies if there's a corresponding verb conjugation. In Scandinavian we also only have two temporal verb inflections and rely a lot on auxiliary verbs, just like in English, but nobody ever told me that that means that the other tenses don't really count. A quick glance at wikipedia seems to confirm that in English it's viewed this way though.
I love your joy and smile when you talk about English.
8:45 Talking about the weather is also a Dutch habit.
One of the most beautiful English teacher in all the youtube. Love her england accent
Always thought of future tenses as of the weird ones. Especially because the verb isn’t changing. Now everything falls into place, thanks for the great summary.
You give me butterflies in my stomach whenever I approach this learning garden❤❤❤
Explained in the most effective way possible, thanks! I'll use it in my lessons. And please let's call it future tense!!
Thank you, Lucy! I'm Brazilian and I love your classes 🩷
I'm from sri lanka. Your videos extremely useful to me and now I can speak a bit English with my friends ❤❤🥰❤❤
Lucy is the best teacher 🥰🥰❤❤❤
My British man already told me that there's no future tense. He explained it just like the way you do. Simple yet easy to understand ☺️
Ever since high school I have been ignoring or avoiding the grammar theory and rules and just went with my intuition and I think I am familiar in practice with all the forms you mention in this video. I feel lucky that I don’t have to know all this “meta-terminology”. 😅
Thanks for a reminder on Future sentence structures. Plus, I had two useful commercials before your video, Great !!!!
Ok... this video is going to explain a tense that you invented that we're supposed to stop using. That makes perfect sense.
I had been using the pluperfect continuous for years before anyone told me it doesn’t exist. By tomorrow I will have unlearned the future perfect too.
I love FUTURE of Beautiful British English. Besides where there's "Will", there's future (I bet you will like that 😉) Amazing bun, bellisima 🤌🏻👌🏻 Summer in Croatia 🎉🥂🧡
It's a special treat to hear you speak
Your aesthetic qualities radiate with an exquisite harmony, encapsulating a captivating blend of physical, intellectual, and emotional attributes, which collectively render you a manifestation of unparalleled beauty.🥺🥺
Just arrived here, lovely classes, a new follower from Brazil, lots to study and improve my English, thanks 😂😂❤
I guess that the main problem which creates an obsitcle between a native speaker and a student is that the native speaker knows the nuances and tints of one's own language and thinks about it easily, while the learner has to came up with one's own tint which have to corresponds one's native language . The lesson is great , it would be good to make an infasis on the detales.
Simple and straightforward.
No future is particularly fun for me because our German Swiss dialects don't have a future tense either, which, in the context of this highly structured language, is a bit surprising. "I'm going to..." is one way to indicate future. You can also use the present with context eg "tomorrow". Obviously tomorrow is in the future, so the scene is set, as it were. We say: "tomorrow I'm not at home" just like you can in English.
I absolutely love Lucy's accent! Great content
Our grammar books in the USA do include the term future tense, plus the others you mentioned.
Great job Lucy... I like your videos very much, I'm still perfectioning my speech. I'm from Mexico, and living in the USA.
You’re still perfecting your speech 😊
"Everything's gonna be OK."
That is not under our control completely, but we say so to have a confidence.
It might be why we don't say "everything is being ok" ;)
Awesome lessons! And welcome to Croatia 🤗
If I say "I'm going shopping later" it's short for "I'll be going shopping later" rather than "I'm going to go shopping". In my mind the word 'going' is associated with the action of shopping, not the future tense. Apart from that, I found your video interesting and educational, even though I'm a native English speaker.