英語には過去と現在の時制しかない
Time and Tense
Tense = morphologically making on verb.
It is important to note that time and tense are not equal to each other. Let's compare two sentences below;
I leave for Tokyo next Sunday. ; and
I will be there now. ◀︎疑問をもったら、ここをクリック
In terms of tense, first sentence is present tense because its verb is not attached an inflectional morpheme, which indicates present tense, so that is present tense.
As we know, English does not have future tense marker. It only have past and present tense marker on verb.
Therefore, morphologically there is no future tense in English.
However, English can express future time with adverbials (next year, tomorrow, etc) and modals (will, shall, might, about to, going to, etc).
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