CBSE Book Class 9 English Communicative Future Time

1. Read the following story
There lived a wise old man in Purkul, Dehradun. The villagers looked up to him and approached him for all their problems.

Three naughty boys Amar, Naveen and Praveen wanted to test the old man's wisdom.

One fine morning they caught a butterfly while playing in the garden. Amar had the butterfly in his hand. He said, "We will go to the old man and ask him if the butterfly is dead or alive. If the old man says, 'the butterfly is dead', I will open my hands and release the butterfly. It will fly away."

"If he says it is alive?" asked Naveen looking at Amar with a smirk.

"I will crush the butterfly and show him the dead insect," said Amar.

The three of them set forth with their wonderful plan.

Amar went to the old man and said, "Sir, the villagers say you can predict the future. Now tell us if the butterfly in my hand is dead or alive?"

The old man looked at the three boys with a serene smile and said, "It is in your hands."

1. We will go to the old man.

2. I will open my hands.

3. It will fly away.

4. I will crush the butterfly.

The modal will is used to talk about a temporary event in progress at some point in future.

Will is used to denote _____________________ time.

Did you know?

There are different constructions in English which can be used to refer to future time.

Please refer to the link below - CBSE Class 9 English Communicative Future Time