Present Simple for Future

The general structure is exactly the same as the Present Simple, but we add a future adverb of time on the end: SUBJECT + INFINITIVE VERB + OBJECT + FUTURE ADVERB OF TIME

The verb “to be” is conjugated as usual.

Third person: We add S to the end of the verb, unless it ends with a Z, S, CH, SH or DGE sound, in which case we add ES and it is pronounced with an extra syllable.

E.g.: She starts at 10 tomorrow and It comes at 9, but It finishes at 11 next week and The Moon passes in front of the Sun at 12:45.

Just as with the Present Simple, we add don’t (or doesn’t in third person) before the main verb.

E.g.: He doesn’t leave tomorrow morning. | I don’t have work tomorrow.

Just as with the Present Simple, if there is no auxiliary verb, we add do or doesn’t. We invert the subject and auxiliary verb.

E.g.: He is leaving next month > Is he leaving next month? | You start in 10 minutes > Do you start in 10 minutes?

Remember that “Context is King”. Click the links to see the examples in context.

• I leave at four o’clock in the morning
• The train leaves at 1
• The project starts in 2021

• Present Simple
• Present Continuous for Future
• Present Simple vs. Present Continuous
• Present Continuous for Future Vs. Present Simple for Future
• Will Future
• Going to
• Future Perfect
• Future Perfect Continuous
• Future Continuous

• https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7688
• https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/preliminaryenglish/grammar/present-simple-and-continuous-as-future-tenses.htm
• http://www.autoenglish.org/tenses/futurepresentcontinuous.pdf

• http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/english-grammar-how-to-use-the-present-simple-to-talk-about-future-events/
• https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/future-present-simple-to-talk-about-the-future-i-work-tomorrow
• http://www.learnenglishlanguagewell.com/grammar/other-use-of-simple-present/