Time expressions - Download as a PDF or view online for free. Time expressions - Download as a PDF or view online for free Future tense: "will" Vs. "going to
2. Ir a + Infinitive Verb (Going to) The second way to speak about the future in Spanish is the same structure that we (Engish speakers) use on a daily basis. For example: I’m going to visit my brother at the weekend. We’re going to get tickets for the football match. They’re going to come later.
Present tenses for future. You can the present simple verb tense to talk about events and appointments. This is best with schedule verbs like: arrive, be, begin, close, open, finish, have, start, end, and leave. Usually, the event will be the subject of the sentence. You should also include a time tag.
If this verb is in the present tense, it's easy. We just put 'she says' and then the sentence: Direct speech: I like ice cream. Reported speech: She says (that) she likes ice cream. We don't need to change the tense, though probably we do need to change the 'person' from 'I' to 'she', for example. We also may need to change words like 'my' and
Simple future and modal forms. The future tenses do not conjugate to be like the past and present do. The simple future tense uses the modal verb will, and all modal verbs use the bare infinitive form of the main verb, regardless of the subject. The bare infinitive of to be is just be, without to. The simple future tense of to be looks like this:
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