Past Future Tenses

13. Past Future Tense

this tense is used to express the events that WILL be done, BUT in the past, not the present.

FORM:

(+) S + would + Verb1

ex: I would go

(-) S + Would + not + Verb1

ex: I wouldn’t go

(?) Would + S + Verb1?

ex: Would you go?

14. Past Future Continuous Tense

Past Future Continuous tells an action would be in progress in the past.

FORM:

(+) S + was/were + going to be + Verb-ing

ex: She was going to be Cooking this morning

(-) S + was/were + not + going to be + Verb-ing

ex: She wasn’t going to be cooking this morning

(?) Was/were + S + going to be + Verb-ing

ex: was she going to be cooking this morning?

time signals for this tense is time in the past like, this morning, yesterday, last night, last week and so on.

15. Past Future Perfect Tense

This tense is restates the action stated in Future Perfect Tense but with different time dimension, it is in past time whilst the Future Perfect is in future time (not happen yet).

FORM:

(+) S + would + have + Verb3

ex: I would have drunk the milk last night

(-) S + would + not + have + Verb3

ex: I wouldn’t have drunk the milk last night

(?) Would + S + have + Verb3

ex: Would you have drunk the milk last night?

16. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense emphasizes on the course and the duration of the action. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used to tell an action which would have been happening until a certain time (period) in the past.

FORM:

(+) S + would + have + been + verb-ing

ex: Chris would have been working for 6 years when he get fired

(-) S+ would + not + have + been + verb-ing

ex: Chris wouldn’t have been working for 6 years when he get fired

(?) Would + subject + have + been + verb-ing?

ex: Would Chris have been working for 6 years when he get fired?