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Old 03-Jul-2006, 19:21
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Default Re: How would you define the future time?

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Originally Posted by incognittum
If you say; "Today I am playing a game" this refers to the present, because you are doing something at this moment (ing). If you say; "Tomorrow I will be playing a game" you are refering to the future, because it will happen eventually or sometime.

I hope that you may stay on the subject that is on the difference between the present time and the future time.

But it seems that you are now talking about the difference between the present action and the future action.

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Originally Posted by incognittum
Let's say, next week you will be going to school everyday. This refers to the future, because it will happen and here you are talking about the "whole week" in general.

Again, what is "This", if it is not an action? I wholly agree that the action you say refers to the future. But our thread is talking about "the future" itself. Those readers who are before you haven't missed the point, which is about the future time, rather than the future action.

What I want to say is, before we study "This refers to the future", we have to study what is the future first. I want to know what is the future, not the thing that refers to the future.

Thank you very much.
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