Prospective to Forms
In my grammar book, The Ideas of English Grammar, I propose teaching what I call prospective forms. The Present Prospective form is a verb + to + verb combination, like 'I have to go to the dentist'. The prospective forms also exist in the past: I wanted to go to the cinema.
These forms enable us to look from now (I have) to a future action (to go to the…
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