[Grammar] will be vs. Will

[Anil Giria]

I will be good.

I understand the above is simple future tense. If we use verb+ing after "will be" then it would be future continuous tense. Am I correct?

Is "will be" to be forms like is, am ,are?

Please clarify

 

[Matthew Wai]

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futurecontinuous.html Not a teacher.

 

[Tdol]

I will be good- what you are calling the simple future
I will be leaving tomorrow -what you are calling the future continuous

 

[Anil Giria]

I will be good- what you are calling the simple future
I will be leaving tomorrow -what you are calling the future continuous

My doubt is that in simple future we don't use "will be". We simply use will/shall. Please clarify.

 

[Matthew Wai]

we don't use "will be".

Who says it is not used?

 

[Anil Giria]

Who says it is not used?

I searched in google and I found that simple future can be constructed with will/shall and also with will be/shall be. Earlier my understanding was that will be and shall be used in future continuous tense only.

Thank you.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you are talking about using "will/shall" + another verb or "will be/shall be" + another verb, then both can be used.

I will go for a walk. (Simple future)
I will be going for a walk. (Future continuous)

I will eat a pizza tonight. (Simple future)
I will be eating a pizza tonight. (Future continuous)

However, the presence of "will be" doesn't dictate that the sentence uses the future continuous. In the example you gave in your very first post - "I will be good" - it indicates the simple future. It's not "will be". It's "will" + "be".