Form and use

How to form a structure with ‘to be going to’ and how to use it correctly.

form

be (am/are/is) + going to + infinitive (I am going to get back to work.)

use

• a future intention:  you have decided to do something in the future (I am going to clean my room.)
• a future prediction based on evidence (Look at those clouds. It’s going to rain.)

Exercises

form and use of to be going to

• exercise 1: fill in the correct verb form of to be going to in affirmative sentences
• exercise 2: fill in the correct verb form in negative sentences
• exercise 3: fill in the correct verb form in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences
• exercise 4: fill in the correct verb form in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences
• exercise 5: fill in the correct verb form in affirmative sentences

Future Simple (I will work) and to be going to + infinitive

• exercise 1: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
• exercise 2: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
• exercise 3: choose will or to be going to
• exercise 4: fill in the correct verb form of will or to be going to
• exercise 5: choose the correct verb form of will or to be going to
• exercise 6: choose the correct verb form of will or to be going to
• exercise 7: choose either will or to be going to

Useful pages

• exercises for practising the future simple (I will go)
• exercises for practising will, shall, won’t, shan’t
• exercises for practising to be going to
• exercises for practising the future continuous (I will be going)
• exercises for practising the future perfect (I will have gone)
• exercises for practising the future perfect continuous (I will have been going)
• exercises for practising 4 future forms or more