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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 future
Familiarity information: FUTURE PROGRESSIVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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