B1 to C1 – Grammar Clinic – The Future seen from the Past

Future in the past is used to express the idea that in the past you thought something would happen in the future. … Moreover, both forms can be used to make predictions about the future. Examples: I told you he was going to come to the party.

When we talk about the past, we sometimes want to refer to something which was in the future at the time we were speaking. We use past verb forms to do this.

There are 8 different ways to express the Future in the past!