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: DBH: More grammar quizzes | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […]

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. 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. Another tense that we use to talk about the time to come is the future continuous (will be + v-ing): Last week we looked at the most basic tenses and structures that are used for talking about the future. This week, we’re considering some more future tenses and structures and thinking about exactly how they are used. To take the same logic to our “next Friday” question. Next Friday will always mean the next Friday in the queue, whether it be tomorrow or six days from now. To refer to the Friday after next Friday, then it must be Friday After Next, and so on. No ambiguity there. To say “this Friday” without actually specifying which Friday you are referring to is a corruption of the meaning of meaning, and there fore has no meaning. ReplyLƯU 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 Lưu ý: Không dùng thì hiện tại tiếp diễn với các động từ chỉ tri giác, nhận thức như : to be, see, hear,feel, realize, seem, remember, forget, understand, know, like , want , glance, think, smell, love, hate… (Ex: He wants to go for a cinema at the moment.) Tenses, tenses and more tenses…. | English materials for KSG students - […] Mixed future exercise […] What my original post says is “It’s not at all absurd to suggest that next Thursday takes place in the following week unless you’ve passed Thursday already this week.”

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. Then I remembered that one of the maxims of Marxism is “From each according to his ability and to each according to his need” This is the surest way to building a just and egalitarian society. The apostolic fathers tried it (communalism/communism) but failed due to human greed (capitalism) and unfaithfulness as epitomised by the couple in this bible story. “So you can see that greed is also one of the major problems why corruption waxes stronger and stronger in your midst. And once a problem persists for far too long, it develops strong tap roots, wide branches to accommodate all manner of patrons and all of this work together to entrench themselves. Two consequences arise from these” Then I wondered what these could be. As if He read the thoughts of my heart, He answered: “They become very difficult to uproot. They flourish and taunt the upright. They produce fruits after their own kind and reduce the space available for contrary opinion to sprout, not to talk of flourishing” And then I remembered the Marxist maxim that “the dominant idea in any society is the idea of the ruling class”. Their culture is the dominant culture; their law, the dominant law and their decadence rubs off on everyone. No it’s not what I meant. My “rules” don’t say that. What my “rule” says is that “next Monday” is the next occurring Monday as is “this Monday” and pays no attention to which week you’re in. This is evidenced in the definitions above. We use the future continuous instead of the present continuous for future events that have already been planned or decided.If you read the final part of my post you’ll see that I believe that the word “week” has been dropped from the phrase(something that’s not uncommon in English) so “this week Monday” or “next week Monday” is possibly where it started but in some areas has morphed into the confusing “this” and “next” we have now. To understand why, it is easiest to consider that this should be used when the sequence is already taking place. Consider how we refer to parts of a day – we say this morning, this afternoon and this evening when the day has begun, even if it is not yet morning, afternoon or evening.The next afternoon would come in the next day (i.e. tomorrow). Similarly, this Friday is part of this week (the week we are in). So when we say next Friday it does not refer to the coming Friday, but the Friday of next week. This coming Sunday”, though, I’d say brings less confusion – whether said on the Monday or Friday, really that has to mean the upcoming Sunday, only it might be less necessary closer to the day as you might simply say “on Sunday / this Sunday” when less call for having to clearly define it. Reply Các từ thường xuất hiện trong thì quá khứ đơn: Yesterday, ago , last night/ last week/ last month/ last year, ago(cách đây), when.

Next usually refers to the following object in a sequence, for instance “The next bus leaves in 10 minutes.” This usually refers to an object that is immediately occurring, or can be seen. So when the bus is in sight, we could say “This bus looks crowded. Let’s get the next bus.” Trong trường hợp dạng bị động của thì quá khứ đơn thì các bạn có thể dùng theo công thức bên dưới]:As you can see in the examples above, we often use the future perfect with time expressions such as: