Going to (future)

First, name the person who has the plan. Use am after I, is after he/she/it or one person’s name, and are after you/we/they or several people.

Then use going to and the base form of the action: read, buy, work. In this English construction, am is required after I.

The base form is required after going to: she is going to work, not works. Agreement with she is already shown by is.

The base form can also be be: I'm going to be a cook. Do not replace this second be with am/is/are. If the action is go, the combination going to go is also correct.

In ordinary conversation and friendly messages, the subject and be are often contracted: I am → I'm, she is → she's, we are → we're. The meaning of the plan stays the same.

Full forms are also correct. In this lesson, write going to; you may hear the conversational form gonna, but it is not the required written form in these exercises.

You can specify when: tonight, tomorrow, next week. Going to works for both near and distant plans.

A time expression can go at the end or at the beginning. If the time is already clear from the conversation, you do not need to repeat it. Tomorrow by itself does not mean that going to is the only possible construction.

I'm going to the library reports where someone is going or plans to go. A place follows to. I'm going to read reports a planned action: a verb follows to. Both sentences are correct.

The same be going to construction can also express a prediction based on present evidence: It's going to rain. This does not mean that the weather has its own plan. The main practice here is human intentions.

Will and the Present Continuous can also talk about the future. The choice depends on the context and on what the speaker wants to emphasize. In this lesson’s tasks, going to is the target, so another correct construction may not meet that specific requirement.

For your own message, choose an action, name the person who plans it, and add one useful detail. You can talk about the evening, studying, home, or a shared activity. If the task asks for your own example, you can invent the facts; if it already gives you a situation, keep those facts.

Not every sentence in a short text needs to contain going to. You can give a reason using the ordinary present tense. Here we are practicing statements; forming negatives and questions independently will be separate next steps.

In the full form, not follows am, is or are. Use am with I; is with he, she, it and one named object or person; are with you, we, they and plurals.

Do not add don’t or doesn’t in this construction: be + not already forms the negative. Compare I don’t cook every day, a habit, with I’m not going to cook tonight, an evening plan.

I am not contracts to I’m not. She is not can become she isn’t or she’s not; they are not can become they aren’t or they’re not. He, it, you and we work the same way.

These alternatives can convey the same meaning. Contractions are usual in conversation and informal messages; full forms are also correct and can sound more emphatic. You do not need to contract every sentence in a message in the same way.

This basic practice uses common neutral forms. Regional and very informal alternatives are not the target. Do not combine two contraction positions into one word: she’sn’t is not correct.

The next verb does not take -s because of he or she, and does not change to -ing. Write isn’t going to play, rather than isn’t going to plays or playing.

Go and be can also be the next verb. Going to go is correct: going to marks a future intention, while go names the action. In going to be, the second be is the base form after to.

The same negative form can express a prediction based on present evidence, rather than someone’s decision. For example, a faulty lamp lets us predict that it will not work. Distinguish intention from prediction through the situation, rather than not alone.

Not every going belongs to going to + verb. In I’m not going home right now, home is a destination and going is go in Present Continuous. Depending on the situation, it may concern movement now or an immediate plan to leave. I’m not going to go home yet has a separate go after going to: the full construction of this lesson.

Other ways of talking about the future can also be natural. If a task specifically asks for be going to, another grammatical construction may convey the meaning without demonstrating the target skill.

To answer a question about a plan, you can give a short answer and then specify the action. To practise the full construction, form a sentence with a subject, be + not and going to + verb.

I’m not going to… can sound firm. If the context calls for a polite answer, add thanks or a brief explanation. Do not invent personal reasons if you do not want to share them.

After your answer, check four things: who is speaking, whether the negative is preserved, whether be is correctly chosen, and whether the next verb is in its base form. Comparing with a model is a self-check, rather than automatic assessment of every possible wording.

In a neutral yes/no question, be precedes the subject: Am I…?, Is he/she/it…?, Are you/we/they…? One person’s name normally takes is; two people take are.

After the subject, retain going to and a base verb. Do not add do/does before this construction.

For a specific detail, place a question word before am/is/are: what for an action or thing, where for a place or destination, when for a time, how for a manner. The rest of an ordinary question with a separate subject retains inversion.

What time asks for a time; how many asks for a count. Keep the question phrase together at the beginning.

In Who is going to help?, who itself is subject: the question asks who will help. Do not add a separate he or she. This is a brief contrast; complex subject questions remain outside the main practice.

If the agent is known and the question asks about a recipient, retain the separate subject: Who are you going to send it to? You sends it; who asks about the recipient. Are precedes you; final to links sending to the recipient.

A going to question can receive Yes/No + pronoun + be, without repeating the whole plan. If you are addressed individually, answer with I; for your group, use we. For Marta, use she.

An affirmative short answer retains full be: Yes, I am. / Yes, she is. Negatives can contract: No, I’m not. / No, she isn’t. / No, she’s not. Full negatives are also correct.

Yes, I am confirms the plan in this dialogue rather than separately asserting existence. Where…? or When…? normally needs a place or time, not just yes.

Question formation changes be’s position but not the verb after to: work, buy, be, go. In Is she going to be late?, initial is forms the question and be describes the future state.

Going to go is normal. Compare Are you going to the station? with Are you going to go to the station? The first uses progressive go with a destination; context can make it current movement or a future arrangement. The second explicitly contains going to + base-form go.

Are you going to come? is an ordinary way to ask about a plan for the first time. You are going to come? is also possible to check what was heard or express surprise. These are different question functions, rather than an automatic correct/incorrect pair.

Tasks requesting a neutral complete question practise am/is/are before a separate subject. If that form is explicitly required, a declarative-order echo question misses the target, although it can be natural in another conversation.

In Where’s she going to work?, Where’s means Where is. Use going to in ordinary written practice; conversational gonna occurs in speech, but its spelling is not this lesson’s target.

First establish whether there is a plan, then ask for an unknown detail. Do not ask again about something just supplied.

A going to question does not guarantee the event will occur and is not the only way to discuss the future. This lesson deliberately practises one construction. Your own examples may be fictional.