We use ‘going to’ when we want to talk about the future.
We use ‘going to’ when we want to talk about our plans.
- I’m going to play hockey after school.
- I’m going to go on a field trip next week.
- My family is going to fly to Mexico next month.
We also use ‘going to’ when we want to make predictions about the future.
- Mike’s birthday party is going to be fun!
- It’s going to rain soon.
- I’m going to be tired tomorrow morning.
To make a sentence with ‘going to’ we need these parts:
- A subject:
- We are going to have fun!
- The very ‘be’:
- We are going to have fun!
- ‘Going to’
- We are going to have fun!
- A second verb
- We are going to have fun!
To make a sentence negative using ‘going to’ we put a ‘not’ between the verb’ be’ and ‘going to’:
- I am not going to play hockey after school.
- It is not going to rain today.
- I am not going to give up!