大学英语专业语法表达未来虚拟语气expressing futurity subjunctive mood.pptxVIP

Lecture 6;Means of Expressing Future Time ;Are will/shall modal auxiliaries or future tense auxiliaries?;Please don’t phone him. He will be having a meeting at the moment. The train will be arriving at two o’clock. He will have received my letter by now. You’ll have been wondering all this time how my invention works. ;As shown in the above-mentioned examples, will/shall are more often used as modal auxiliaries than as the so-called “future tense auxiliaries”. In addition to futurity, they express a variety of modal meanings. They may even express the speaker’s assumptions about a present h