History of culture, study of art and philology: modern points of view
- Author:
- Olga N. Selezneva
- Work direction:
- Филология
- Abstract:
- The article raises the question of the ambiguous grammatical status of the means expressing the future tense. The author of the article analyzes the Future Continuous form, its grammatical status and expressed lexical meaning. The article assumes that unlike other continual forms of the English verb tenses system, the main meaning of which is the expression of an action’s duration or a process, the main function of Future Continuous is to designate neutral future actions.
- Keywords:
- Future Continuous, means of expressing, the future tense, grammatical status, duration, neutral future