Use the Future Continuous for an action that will be in progress at a moment in the future: This time tomorrow I'll be flying to Lisbon. It's also a polite way to ask about plans. Form: will be + -ing.
At 9 tomorrow I'll be working.
A bar around a future moment: at that time, the action will be in the middle of happening.
| Positive | I'll be working. · She'll be working. |
|---|---|
| Negative | I won't be working. |
| Question | Will you be working? |
This time next week we'll be lying on a beach.
The action will have started before that moment and will still be going on.
I'll be cooking when you arrive.
Like the Past Continuous, but in the future: a longer action and a short one.
Will you be using the car tonight?
Asking about someone's plans without sounding like a request.
Words that often go with this tense. They're hints, not rules.
Don't call at 8. I _____ dinner then.
Other future tenses: Future Simple (will), Future Perfect, Future Perfect Continuous.
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Use will for a single action or a decision (I'll call you at 8). Use will be + -ing for something already in progress at that time (I'll be driving at 8).
Yes, especially in speech, for plans and polite questions: Will you be staying long?
State verbs, which describe states rather than actions: know, believe, understand, like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, own, belong, seem, mean. They normally stay simple even when you mean 'right now': I know, not I'm knowing.