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  • Sometimes we want to talk about something we thought

  • would happen in the future at a point in the past.

  • We'll look at how to do this now.

  • To do this, we use past versions of future forms.

  • 'Will' becomes 'would'.

  • Yesterday I said I would go to the park.

  • 'Going to' becomes 'was going to'. Like this:

  • The last time I saw you,

  • you were going to start a new job. What's it like?

  • The present continuous becomes the past continuous.

  • Last week you were visiting your family

  • the day after I saw you. How did it go?

  • So to recap:

  • 'will' becomes 'would',

  • 'going to' becomes 'was going to'

  • and the present continuous

  • becomes the past continuous.

  • At the start,

  • I said we'd look at how to talk about the

  • future in the past. And now we have.

  • Bye!

Sometimes we want to talk about something we thought

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