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FUTURE PROGRESSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does future progressive mean? 

FUTURE PROGRESSIVE (noun)
  The noun FUTURE PROGRESSIVE has 1 sense:

1. a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the futureplay

  Familiarity information: FUTURE PROGRESSIVE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FUTURE PROGRESSIVE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

future progressive; future progressive tense

Context example:

'I will be running' is an example of the future progressive

Hypernyms ("future progressive" is a kind of...):

continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going)


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