Learn Grammar With The English Grammar Detective: Paul Duke (Part 1)
Open Draft - with Fabio Cerpelloni
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The Future Is Temporary
English doesn't really have its own inflected future tense. We push the present into the future because there's this underlying idea that the future doesn't really exist. So whenever we talk about the future, we're talking about our view of the future from the present. And that can be temporary. The more certain the plan is like I've booked my flight and Fabio's waiting to pick me up at the airport, it becomes more permanent.
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