future continuous question – English Grammar Profiler

Future continuous describes ongoing actions that will happen in the future. The ‘yes/no’ question form follows this structure:

Will + subject + be + verb-ing?

Will we be seeing you again?

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A question word can be added:

What will you be doing in Boston?

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Note that “will” indicates the future, the auxiliary verb “be,” and finally the main verb in its continuous form (verb-ing).

The subject is not always between ‘will’ and ‘be’:

What will be happening in the next five minutes?

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In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 55 in the category of FUTURE / continuous is defined as:

‘yes/no’ and ‘wh-‘ question forms with ‘will’

An iWeb search for will _p* be _v?g* gives the following Ngrams that may point to questions.

1 WILL YOU BE DOING 1380 2 WILL YOU BE USING 1006 3 WILL I BE DOING 497 4 WILL YOU BE GETTING 444 5 WILL YOU BE WORKING 422 6 WILL YOU BE MAKING 421 7 WILL YOU BE TAKING 318 8 WILL YOU BE WATCHING 316 9 WILL WE BE SEEING 303 10 WILL YOU BE ADDING 279 11 WILL YOU BE TRYING 271 12 WILL YOU BE PICKING 258 13 WILL YOU BE GOING 232 14 WILL YOU BE BUYING 194

15 WILL YOU BE PLAYING 181