Future tense
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The future tense is a tense that expresses an event that occurs after the moment of speech.
- “a prediction on the part of the speaker that the situation in the proposition, which refers to an event taking place after the moment of speech, will hold.” (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994:244)
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