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- noun Attributive form of
future tense
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Examples
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It's nearing the end of the school year everything starts here in April and that means two things for classes: there are very few of them in the next month, and we start focusing on future-tense.
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It's nearing the end of the school year everything starts here in April and that means two things for classes: there are very few of them in the next month, and we start focusing on future-tense.
Musings of a Drunken Monk: Career choices in Japanese high school 2006
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It's nearing the end of the school year everything starts here in April and that means two things for classes: there are very few of them in the next month, and we start focusing on future-tense.
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These statements can be identified by the use of predictive, future-tense or forward-looking terminology, such as "expects,"
Alcoa Announces Dividend and Stock Contribution to Pension Plans - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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A year and a half ago, he got word of a sale of old restaurant furnishings in Bloomington and, being a collector of generalized gadgets and future-tense junk, dropped by the sale, ogled the wares, bought some rather gaudy, orange restaurant booths for only $60 and once back at his home in Towanda, got an idea.
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These statements can be identified by the use of predictive, future-tense or forward-looking terminology, such as "expects,"
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News coverage of the warnings of scientists -- that we are destabilizing global climate and face an increased number of increasingly severe weather events -- is covered as serious, if future-tense.
GPC - PVC 2009
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In today's world, leaders must think in the future-tense and have new skills for new age thinking.
unknown title 2009
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How I Met Your Mother is the ongoing, future-tense, Bob Saget-narrated chronicle of how Ted Mosby (Radnor) met the mother of his two kids.
Cinema Blend Feeds 2009
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But in English, infinitives like "to go" and future-tense forms like "will go" are two words, not one, and there is not the slightest reason to interdict adverbs from the position between them.
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