ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how to express future events and put endings on adjectives in Afrikaans and English language. Afrikaans expresses future action in three ways, as does English: by use of the present tense, by use of gaan 'to go', and by use of sal 'will'. When an adjective is used before a noun, it may or may not require an -e ending. Two sorts of adjective take an -e ending: Adjectives of more than one syllable always take an ending and adjectives of one syllable ending in d, f and s takes an ending, but if they end in any other sound they don't. The three categories of adjective do not normally inflect: monosyllabic adjectives ending in k, p and r, adjectives ending in a vowel or diphthong, and adjectives which, although they do not appear to take -e, change in form when used before a noun because they were inflected historically.
