You are coming to my house

[Duda]

Test No. incompl/elem-10 "Present Tense", question 9

Next time you ......... to my house, you must bring that book.

(a) come
(b) is coming
(c) are coming

Test No. incompl/elem-10 "Present Tense", answer 9

Next time you come to my house, you must bring that book.

Correct answer: (a) come
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Hi,
Why can i say you are coming?
Many thanks for your answer.

[Torsten]

You can use present continuous (you are coming) when you know the time of the event. For example:

I'm glad that you are coming to my house next Friday at 8 pm.

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[Morteza]

Hi,dear teacher!
This grammatical point got a bothering problem out of my mind at last.
Many thanks,
Morteza

[Penuel]

Hi

Can we say: Next time you'll come to my house, you must bring that book.

thanks!

[Kitosdad]

NO, you can't.

"Next time you come to my house, you must bring that book."
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[Penuel]

Hello!

Can you please give me a grammar reference for above mentioned, e.d. why we have to use Present Simple in "Next time you come to my house"

Thanks!

[Ferdinand Bardamu]

I'm not a native, but I would hazard a hypothesis: when the tense of the governing clause is present or future, the time clause which expresses something happening prior to or at the same time as something else requires the present tense. Can some native English speaker confirm this assumption of mine? Thank you

[Gianalineth]

now I get it, so it is simple present because I do not know the exactly time that is going to happen the event?

[Dongtien]

It make me be undecided in using.Thanks o lot!

[Dina27]

So we should know a definite period of time to use progressive tense for future actions, don`t we?

[N.jafari]

Hi ,
why " Next time you will come...." is wrong?
Thnks in advance.

[Sandy1]

Future tense is alittle bite confusing
when we want to talk about for example time table like an airplan goes off at 7 o`clock we use present simple despite the fact that it will go off .
And when we want to do some thing in future but we have already arranged it like travelling to london next week we use present continuos by using going to.
But we use will when we think about something and suddenly decide to do some thing else:if you were studying and suddenly decided to go for a walk,you say I wiil go for a walk and you use will when you give promises :I will visit you, I will help you...

[Nabilchamlal]

Hi Ferdinand Bardamu;

It is an interesting hypothesis, I’m looking into it but I need some more conditions about the propositions that link the governing clause and the subordinated one.

[Alan]

Hi Nabilchamlal,

I've written some notes on the site on how to express the future. Let me know of it helps:

http://www.english-test.net/lessons/20/index.html

Alan
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[Lili6]

Why can't we say?
Next time you'll come to my house, you must bring that book.
next time - show us to use future indefinite tense
thanks!