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GRAMMAR
‘’will / won’t’’
• We use ‘’will / won’t’’ to make predictions, offers or requests. We also use these structures to make
decisions at the time of speaking.
Positive Negative Question Short Answers LEARN STEP BY STEP
I I I Yes, I will. / No, I won’t.
You You you Yes, you will. / No, you won’t.
He He he Yes, he will. / No, he won’t.
She will live in a village. She won't live in a village. Will she live in a village? Yes, she will. / No, she won’t.
It It it Yes, it will. / No, it won’t.
We We we Yes, we will. / No, we won’t.
They They they Yes, they will. / No, they won’t.
• We use some adverbials of probability (certainly, perhaps, definitely, maybe, probably) with ‘’will’’ to show how
certain we are about something.
Examples
- Maybe it won’t be sunny tomorrow.
- Perhaps our world will be a better place in the future.
- I will definitely go to university next year.
• We can use ‘’think/guess/believe/suppose’’ to talk about the future.
Examples
- I believe many people will travel to space in spacecrafts in the next ten years.
- Kate thinks our planet won’t be a peaceful place in the future.
ATTENTION 1!
We use some expressions when we make predictions. The most common ones are ‘’I hope so. / I don’t think so. /
I think so. I hope not. / I’m sure. / I’m not sure.’’
ATTENTION 2!
We use ‘’may’’ to talk about possibilities in the future. However, these possibilities are not very strong.
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