DBH: More grammar quizzes | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […] Let’s start with the present simple. Like the present continuous, this tense can be used for talking about future events that are planned, or ‘in the diary’:

BATX: FUTURE TENSES. Review | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […] My point is that with understanding of what next actually means, it is not ambiguous. As you pointed out, the definition is that the next one is the one that follows THIS one. As long as we use THIS for this coming and this past, the days referred to as LAST and NEXT are perfectly clear. Your dictionary apparently used the word PRESENT, but on Thursday, Sunday coming doesn’t really work as PRESENT. If you say, I would like to go shopping on present Sunday, people would probably figure out that you mean this coming Sunday, but it makes much more sense to say this coming Sunday (this Sunday, for short), as on Thursday, it’s not presently any day but Thursday, which we would simply refer to as TODAY. Like I said, we always use tense in these situations, and if we also use THIS, we are always clear about the exact day. Then when we add in LAST & NEXT (to THIS), we can also be perfectly clear that last is just previous to this past, and next is just after this coming. No need to refer to the ambiguous WEEK.I disagree that ‘this Friday’ is nonsense without a context, as the ‘pointer’ or indicator to tell us is based on our understanding of what day today is. The same way we would understand ‘this week’ to be the one the current day belongs to, we can understand that ‘this Friday’ refers to the one that belongs to the current week – within reason (as the article and comments show, this is not necessarily that simple, but it is a starting point).

Note that we often use the preposition by with the future perfect, ( by Thursday/ by the time you arrive). If we think that something probably will happen, (though we are not completely certain), we can use the modal verb should : James Barnhard said “It’s Saturday night and I say to you, “This Monday, I would like to go shopping with you.” By your rules, you should tell me that will be impossible because this Monday has already passed. Is that your contention? ” We use the future continuous for situations or actions that will be in progress at a certain time in the future.Using this logic, for days, this should refer to the day coming in the next 6 days (this week), while next should refer to the day in the next 7-13 days (the next week). Note, this should not be used on the day before, or on the day itself, when we would use tomorrow or today (but continue to use next for the following Friday). All descriptive sentences contain tense. If we use past tense, than “this” means this past. Conversely, if we’re speaking in future tense, it becomes this coming. Last Tuesday is referencing past tense, so it would be the Tuesday before this past Tuesday. If it’s Thursday, I can say two days ago was this past Tuesday, or just this Tuesday (combined with past tense), and that last Tuesday was 9 days ago. Dictionary definition of “next”–“(of a time) coming immediately after the time of writing or speaking.” and DBH: The Future | ELOSaniturri - […] mix tenses: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise […]