eli5: Comparison between Simple Future and Future Continuous Tense

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Please! I need to make a PPT on this and I’m particularly looking of for some good gramatical examples

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The Future Continuous (almost always) involves specific times:

‘At 5 o’clock tomorrow, I’ll be working out in the gym’.

Future Simple is more for predictions: ‘I think it will rain tomorrow’.

Also for decisions made now: ‘I think I’ll have a coffee, not a tea. Thanks.’

See the explanation & exercises:

[https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/future_contrasted.htm](https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/future_contrasted.htm)

[https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm](https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/future.htm)

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One way to tell the difference, in addition to any other comments giving information. Is that the future continuous form will follow this pattern usually:

subject + to be verb + present participle + complement