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Will

Look at the following sentences:

Tia is five years old. She will be six next year.
Tia’s grandfather is 58 years old. He will retire at 60.
Teacher to students: Tomorrow, we will go for a picnic. We will go to the fort by bus. But once at the fort we will walk around and see all the old buildings, the museum and even the ruins. It will be a long walk. We will start at 8 o’clock, so be sure to reach the school in time. And we will be return by 5 o’clock. Breakfast and lunch will be provided by the school. You must remember to bring your water bottles with you. We will have a great time there.

Will in these sentences denotes simple future.

Let us look at some other uses of will:

Will is used in the sense of a request:

Will is used to denote invitations:

Will is used to express determination/intention/promise/ threat:

Will is used to express command:

“You will finish this work before you go”, said the officer to the clerk.
“All the students will reach the school by 7.30 a.m. tomorrow”, said the teacher.

Will is used to indicate characteristic habits:

When they got a new telephone, their son will talk for hours on the telephone.
They will sit for hours in the garden on sunny days.

Will in conditional sentences:

Look at the following sentences and notice time change and verb change:

The first sentence in both the groups expresses habitual activity.

The second sentence in both the groups expresses past activity.

The third sentence in both the groups expresses future activity.

The words wake, woke, go and went are Verbs.

Wake and go denote action which is done in the present time.

Woke and went denote action which was done in the past time.

When we add will/shall to wake and go, we express action which will be done in the future time.

Verbs are, along with Nouns, the most important words in a sentence. They express actions. When the time of an action changes, the Verb also changes.

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