ABSTRACT

This reading is pedagogically oriented (i.e. it aims to be intelligible to teachers) and provides some interesting insights into ways of expressing future time in English. Lewis discusses some forms already covered in this book, such as 'will' (A5) and the present progressive (B5 — which he calls 'durative' as well as continuous), but other forms discussed are not related to tense or aspect, such as '(be) going to', and 'be to'. His idea of conceptualisation is similar to that of Lee's 'construing' (see D2 and D4): the importance of the way we perceive events and states.