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This post includes the use of Present Tense for Future Time and it differentiates between present indefinite and continuous tense.
Two Present Tenses (Present Simple and Present Continuous) are used to refer to future actions.
 Use Examples
My train leaves at 11:30. (Present Simple)
He is meeting Sara on Friday. (Present Continuous)Â
Present Simple for Future Tense:
1. To talk about Timetables and Programs of the future:
e.g.
The meeting starts at nine o’clock tomorrow.
What time does the film start tonight?Â
2. To talk about people if their plans are fixed like a timetable:
e.g.
I start my new job on Monday.
What time do you finish work tomorrow?Â
Present Continuous for Future Tense:Â
1. When you have already decided and arranged to do something:
e.g.
A: What are you doing on Sunday evening?
B: I am going to the cinema.Â
2. To talk about an action just before you start to do it. It happens with the verbs of movement (come, go, leave etc.)
e.g.
I am tired. I am going to bed now.
Sara, are you ready yet?
Yes, I am coming.
Final Words
This article discusses the use of present indefinite and present continuous tense to refer to future time.
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