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§ 14. The use of the Future Continuous.

  1. The Future Continuous is used to denote an action which will be going on at a definite moment in the future.

1 wonder whether we shall ever arrive at a decision. I am sure the next time you call we shall still be wavering. (Collins)

The definite moment is indicated either by another future action expressed by a verb in the Present Indefinite or by an adverbial phrase.

I shall already be working when you return.

At 12 o’clock I shall still be working.

The definite moment is often not expressed, but is understood from the situation.

I am sure you won’t be able to speak to him, he will be working.

  1. The Future Continuous is very often used in modern English in the same meaning as the Future Indefinite, k—a. to denote a future action.

But my dear Ann Veronica, yon will be getting into debt. (Wells) Give my love to Lady Mont, shan’t be seeing her again. (Gals­worthy)

If you don’t take care, he’ll be getting transferred to China and marrying a purser’s daughter. (Galsworthy)

The future continuous in the past

§ 15. The formation of the Future Continuous in the Past.

  1. The Future Continuous in the Past is formed by means of the Future Indefinite in the Past of the auxiliary verb to be and Participle I of the notional verb.

  2. In the interrogative form the first auxiliary verb is placed before the subject.

In the negative form the negative particle not is placed after the first auxiliary verb.

Affirmative Interrogative Negative

I should be reading Should I be reading? I should not be reading

He would be reading Would he be reading? He would not be reading

She would be reading Would she be reading? She would not be reading

We should be reading Should we be reading? We should not be reading

You would be reading Would you be reading? You would not be reading

They would be reading Would they be reading? They would not be reading

  1. The contracted affirmative forms are:

I’d be reading He’d be reading

The contracted negative forms are:

1 shouldn’t be reading He wouldn’t be reading

  1. The negative-interrogative forms are:

( Should 1 not be reading?

\ Shouldn’t 1 be reading?

( Would he not be reading?

( Wouldn’t he be reading?

§ 16. The use of the Future Continuous in the Past.

The Future Continuous in the Past denotes an action going on ;it a definite moment which was future from the point of view of I he past.

1 felt sure they would be discussing the same problem when I called.

(For detailed treatment see Chapter XVIIL)

Note 1. —Influence of the lexical character of the verb on the use of the Indefinite and the Continuous form.

To express a process with terminative verbs the Continuous form a’.one is possible»

At that moment he was unlocking the door. (Oppenheim)

В этот момент он отпирал дверь.

With the Indefinite form the meaning would be quite different: the action would be represented as completed.

At that moment he unlocked the door.

В этот момент он отпер дверь.

То express a process with non-terminative verbs the Continuous form is mostly used, though the Indefinite form is also found,

especially with such verbs as to sit, to stand, to lie, because these verbs express a state rather than a process.

When I saw her, she lay motionless on the sofa.

With the adverbial modifier the whole day yesterday (to-morrow) both the Indefinite and the Continuous form of non-terminative verbs can be used to denote a process.

I was so tired I slept (was sleeping) the whole day yesterday.

The meaning is the same, only with the Continuous form the pro­cess is expressed more emphatically.

Note 2. —The use of the Past Indefinite and the Past Continuous in complex sentences with as and while.

The use of the Past Indefinite and the Past Continuous in complex sentences with as and while, when there are two actions going on at the same time, largely depends on the lexical character of the verb.

  1. If both the verbs are terminative, they are generally used in the Past Continuous.

She was arranging the books on the shelf while I was sweep­ing the floor.

  1. If one of them is terminative and the other non-terminative, the terminative verb must be used in the Past Continuous and the non-terminative verb may be used either in the Past Continuous or, preferably, in the Past Indefinite.

She was arranging the books on the shelf while I played the piano.

  1. If both verbs are non-terminative the best way is the Past Indefinite iin both clauses.

He read as he ate. (Bennett)

There is another possibility: the use of the Past Indefinite in one clause and the Past Continuous in the other.

He was singing as he walked.