Do you want to come?Įvery highly proficient English speaker I have spoken to agrees that (1) is more natural. Do you want to come?Ī: We’ll have a barbecue. I’ve asked many English speakers which conversation they think is more natural:Ī: We’re having a barbecue. These sentences are grammatically correct and useful, but they are NOT asking about the near future in the most common way.
Some people may say that the future question is ‘What will you do tomorrow?’ or ‘What are you going to do tomorrow?’ (considering will and be going to as future tense markers). When we ask someone about these days we usually ask in the following way: PAST
We can simplify the idea of past, present and future into three days: yesterday, today (now) and tomorrow.
