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The going-to future is a grammatical construction used in English to refer to various types of future occurrences. It is made using appropriate forms of the expression to be going to.[1] It is an alternative to other ways of referring to the future in English, such as the future construction formed with will (or shall) – in some contexts the different constructions are interchangeable, while in others they carry somewhat different implications.
Constructions analogous to the English going-to future are found in some other languages, including French, Spanish and some varieties of Arabic.
- ^ Fleischman, Suzanne, The Future in Thought and Language, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1982.