JOSE A. CARILLO
Many of us might find it strange that despite the overwhelming richness and diversity of the English language, its verbs can’t inflect or change in form for the future tense. By some quirk in the development of its grammar structures, English verbs can inflect only for the past, present and perfect tenses. To compensate for this grammatical handicap, however, English came up with no less than six ways of denoting the future. It does the job by appending to the main verb particular combinations of auxiliary verbs in different tenses, and the choice among these future-tense forms primarily depends on which part of the future is important to us or to those telling us about it.