When writing a science-fiction book set 200 years in the future
That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any time after the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present., Time to come; time subsequent to the present (as, the future shall be as the present); collectively, events that are to happen in time to come., The possibilities of the future; -- used especially of prospective success or advancement; as, he had great future before him., A future tense.
There are only three basic tenses - past, present and future.
There are three main types of tenses: past, present, and future. Each type can be further broken down into different tenses to indicate the timing of an action or event in relation to the moment of speaking.
Prediction.
That which you think of, that which is imagined to be a reality. That picture which you see in your mind of an event of the past, present or future.
a future event
To build the readers anticipation about the future
* prediction * extrapolation
future action, present action, or past action
The mean of time is A Nonspatial continue in which event occur in Apparently irreversible successions from the past thought the present to the future.
this is FUTURE tense I Will is future I am is present I have been is past
There are three main tenses in English grammar: past, present, and future. Each tense can be further divided into simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous forms to specify the timing of the action or event. Tenses are used to indicate when something happened (past), when something is happening (present), or when something will happen (future).