future

«future» in Mova's school dictionary: the time that has not happened yet; what will happen… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (the future; a future, futures); adjective (future: future plans)

meaning for a pupil

1) The future is the time that has not happened yet; what will happen after now. tree →

2) Your future is what will happen to you later in your life, like your job or plans. tree →

3) Future describes things that will exist or happen later, like future jobs or a future king. tree →

4) In grammar, the future tense is the verb form used to talk about what will happen, like «I will go». tree →

5) In future means from now on, starting at this moment. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, the future is on the right of a timeline (past on the left, present in the middle). In English grammar, future forms use «will», «going to» and the present («The bus leaves at eight»). In science and maths, you predict future results from patterns. In feelings lessons, children think about hopes and goals for the future. Phrases: «in the future», «in future» (from now on, UK), «the near future», «future plans», «the future of».

examples

• In the future, cars might drive themselves. tree →
• What do you want to be in the future? tree →
• Nobody knows exactly what the future will bring. tree →
• «I will go» is in the future tense. tree →
• In future, please hang up your coat. tree →
• We wrote letters to our future selves. tree →
• Look after the planet for future generations. tree →
• The scientist made a prediction about the future. tree →
• In future I shall omit them. tree →

note

«In the future» = at some later time; «in future» (UK) = from now on. Opposites: «the past» and «the present». Nobody can know the future for sure; fortune tellers only guess.

In the corpora

• It cannot see the future, so it invents next week's episode.
• A bot cannot know the future or secret scripts; its predictions are invented.
• Nobody can see the future, but people can hope, worry, and make choices that change what happens.
• The future of AI is probably neither all wonderful nor all terrible; it depends on the choices people make.
• Thinking about the future, for example by writing letters to it, helps us decide what we want now.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «future» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.