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LƯU Ý]các bạn có thể học ngữ pháp với phương pháp học của VOCA Grammar để có được hiệu quả nhanh hơn, học thú vị hơn, nhớ lâu hơn tại đây: www.grammar.vn The football match begins at 7.30 and ends at 9.15. So during this time, for example at 8.30, Kevin will be watching the match. C/ We use will have (done) (future perfect) to say that something will already be complete. Kevin's football match ends at 9.15. So after this time, for example at 9.30, the match will have finished. Some more examples: English Program 23/11-27/11 | The A Academy - […] Reviewing and discussing a British news article Grammar – REVIEW: future tenses Link – https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/future-tenses-exercise/ Homework – exercises in the…

Tenses, tenses and more tenses…. | English materials for KSG students - […] Mixed future exercise […] You may find English speakers using both these meanings, often depending on regional uses. So which is more correct, and how should you commonly understand these expressions? Actually the second sentence is more common, and for many English speakers more logical – because the coming Friday is usually referred to as this Friday. As for sennight, according to quotes in the OED, sennight, one of its uses is the same as that of week, as described above. Notice that two of the above examples relate to events that are not only planned, but planned by someone else, as part of an official diary or timetable. This is a typical use of the present simple for future events.My point is that with understanding of what next actually means, it is not ambiguous. As you pointed out, the definition is that the next one is the one that follows THIS one. As long as we use THIS for this coming and this past, the days referred to as LAST and NEXT are perfectly clear. Your dictionary apparently used the word PRESENT, but on Thursday, Sunday coming doesn’t really work as PRESENT. If you say, I would like to go shopping on present Sunday, people would probably figure out that you mean this coming Sunday, but it makes much more sense to say this coming Sunday (this Sunday, for short), as on Thursday, it’s not presently any day but Thursday, which we would simply refer to as TODAY. Like I said, we always use tense in these situations, and if we also use THIS, we are always clear about the exact day. Then when we add in LAST & NEXT (to THIS), we can also be perfectly clear that last is just previous to this past, and next is just after this coming. No need to refer to the ambiguous WEEK. Again, saying Sunday next week doesn’t work because many people believe next week begins with a Sunday. Whereas, if you believe in weekends, next week begins with a Monday. On a Thursday, you could say Sunday next week. One person would think you are referring to 3 days in the future, and another would think 10 days in the future. So your way still causes confusion. Dictionary definition of “this”–“used to identify a specific person or thing close at hand or being indicated or experienced.” To you things may sound stupid but to me “next Monday” is not logical (or absurd in your parlance) and something I’d never heard of until I moved countries. I’m sorry that THIS & NEXT are confusing to you in terms of days. If you were able to understand what I’ve explained, you’d be able to see that there are no holes or ambiguities if one communicates these things in the way I’ve advocated.

Weeks are ambiguous, though. Personally, I feel that a calendar week runs from Monday to Sunday. At least in American culture, we all refer to the 2 day weekEND. I think our traditional calendar here shows Sunday as the first day of the week because of a biblical reference. But even if we all agree that the next week starts after a weekend, there’s still the problem of calendar week vs. current 7 day period beginning with today. When one says next week, they could either be referring to this coming Monday through Sunday period, because they would refer to the current Monday through Sunday period as this week. Or, they could be referring to 7-13 days from now. It all depends on what a person is currently meaning by the word week. Week can’t be standardized, but should be understood by context. Here are the things that actually solve the problem. The definition of last is the one that occurs just prior to this one, and the definition of next is the one that occurs just after this one. Since we always speak with tense, if we refer to the future, this Sunday will always be the upcoming Sunday. So on Thursday, if you say you want to go shopping this Sunday, we all know that you mean 3 days from now. Therefore, if instead you say that you want to go shopping next Sunday, we can all know that you mean the Sunday after this upcoming Sunday, 10 days from now. Otherwise, you would have said This Sunday. Likewise, if you say that you WENT shopping THIS Sunday, we can all know that you went 4 days ago. And if you say that you went shopping LAST Sunday, you mean that you went shopping 11 days ago. Using the word THIS for the day that falls in the rolling week that applies to your tense solves the problem. This coming Sunday is 100% clear to everyone. This past Sunday is 100% clear to everyone. So if you properly use next as the Sunday that follows this Sunday, and last as the Sunday that preceeded this Sunday, there is no confusion. People simply need to use this, next and last, correctly. The confusion is really that many people don’t understand that next is not the one that is immediately upcoming. Next means the one that occurs just after THIS one. Note that we often use the preposition by with the future perfect, ( by Thursday/ by the time you arrive).

We should mention another important use of the present tense for relating the future, and one that students sometimes get wrong. A present tense – often the present simple – is used for talking about future events in phrases that contain words relating to time, such as when, after and until.

You’re very uncompromising straight talking almost to the point of aggression but I don’t take offence on this! As you can see in the examples above, we often use the future perfect with time expressions such as: DBH: More grammar quizzes | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […]

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The way we describe the tenses can very much depend on our purpose and particular schools of thinking – some grammars define it as twelve tenses (as I present in my own book) to show the 3 times, past, present and future, and their four forms, but others would describe this as two or three tenses (past and present as the only ‘morphological’ tense, and future as a tense using auxiliaries), with four ‘aspects’ each. On the other extreme, there are ways to describe other particular functions as tenses, too, so it really depends on how much detail we wish to go into. When it comes to British vs US, there are differences, yes – most generally it comes between how we use simple vs continuous or how we use the perfect tenses – though these will also vary within the countries so I wouldn’t venture to give a definitive list. The differences aren’t especially dramatic, though, and shouldn’t have a huge impact on meaning; it will often occur when we might consider the tense use fairly flexible anyway. Reply This also works for talking about the day or week before last, and the day or week after next. There are no holes in this procedure. There are holes in every other way that people are using next and last. Reply Of course, not everything in the future is certain! We need a way of talking about future events that are only possible. For this, we have the modal verbs may, might, and could: Be careful when using the verb “to be” in the future perfect tense. The construction is easy to confuse with the future perfect continuous tense.