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Going-to future

The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms of the expression to be going to. It is an alternative to other ways of referring to the future in English, such as the future construction formed with will (or shall) – in some contexts the different…

Usage, Expressions using going to as relative future form & Related forms in creoles

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Present tenseProspective aspectPresent perfectRetrospectiveAdverbs
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Expressions using going to as relative future form

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Related forms in creoles

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Expressions using going to as relative future form

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related to Related forms in creoles · 13
Going-to future → Ai, Belizean Creole English, Da, English, Examples, Gullah Uh, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian Creole English, I'm, Jamaican English Creole, Mwen, Some, The
related to Usage · 7
Going-to future → Different, English, Future, It, Some, The, There
related to Origin · 5
Going-to future → Adam, English, Eynsham, From, The
related to The be + to construction · 5
Going-to future → English, For, In, The, This
is a · 1
Going-to future → grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences

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going future english construction used form copula may verb going-to tense go present reference also forms past constructions i'm one

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Going-to futurerelated to Related forms in creolesJamaican English Creole0.60section
Going-to futurerelated to Related forms in creolesBelizean Creole English0.60section

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