The future tense is a part of tense system. From the viewpoint of absolute tense, if a event happened after the saying time, we could say it happened in the future, which is called simple future.

People will have their own robots in the future.

而后者是对将来的推测，故用一般将来时。

The aim of the current study is to investigate the effects of three production activities on uptake ( immediate performance) and acquisition of future passive voice in English. It also investigates the relationship between uptake and acquisition.

本研究的目的是研究三种输出活动对英语学习中一般将来时的被动语态的摄入与习得的影响，以及摄入与习得之间的关系。

She has just returned from her position as Managing Director of the London Branch.

注意，这里常用一般将来时。我的接任者是伦敦分公司的总经理亨里埃塔？布林克利女士，她刚刚被调回来。

e.g. She has to go to school by bus.

一般将来时中则要用will have to.她不得不乘公汽上学。

Time Inconsistency in Simple Future Tense: A SFL Perspective

从功能语法的角度看一般将来时中时的非一致性

A Semantic Study of the English Simple Past Tense and the Present Perfect

实话英语的时态一般过去时和现在完成体的语义研究

Understand the meaning of the simple past tense.

使学生初步了解一般过去时的意义。

Then, the author adopted SPSS software to analyze the data and obtained the following findings: ( 1) The absence of tense in Chinese has an inhibiting effect on the acquisition of English simple past.

然后，作者利用SPSS对所得数据进行分析并有如下发现：（1）汉语时的缺失对中国英语学习者习得一般过去时有阻碍作用。

What effects does the aspect marker le exert on the simple past use?

汉语的体标记了对使用一般过去时有什么影响？

They were all concerning about the past tense and the present perfect.

那些练习题都是跟一般过去时和现在完成时有关的。

One day, he saw an advertisement in the newspaper.

有一天，他在报纸上看见了一则广告（一般过去时，表明事实）

The past indefinite tense and the past continuous tense.

一般过去时和过去进行时。

The Effects of Verb Salience on the Simple Past Marking in English Interlanguage

动词突显度对英语过渡语中一般过去时标记的影响

Find out the sentence with the past tense.

进一步了解一般过去时。

The action that happens second is often in the past simple tense. In this example: I arrived. When you want to talk about two past actions, one which happened before the other, remember to use the past perfect for the first action, and the past simple for the second.

当一句话中有两个在过去不同时段发生的动作时，先发生的动作使用过去完成时，而后发生的动作则常用一般过去时。

You heard him using the past simple and past continuous.

你应该听见了，他用的是一般过去时和过去进行时。

What interactive effects do those intralingual factors exert on the simple past use?

这些语言内因素对英语学习者使用一般过去时有什么交互影响（interactive effects）？

The Effects of Multiple Linguistic Factors on the Simple Past Use in English Interlanguage

语言因素对英语过渡语中使用一般过去时的影响

Who knows the past tense and the past participle form of this verb?

谁知道一般过去时和这个动词的过去分词？

Do you know the girl in white gloves?

你认识那个戴着白手套的女孩 吗 ?