Ways of expressing future action based on the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

5) a) Oh, there is really very little to tell, Harry," answered the painter; "and I am afraid you will have hardly understood it. [25, 72]

b) Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [25, 87]

c) Perhaps you will have been tired sooner than he will. [25, 96]

d) Some day you will look at your friend, and he will have seemed to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't have liked his tone of color, or something.[25,107]

6) a) Certainly, Harry. Just touch the bell, and when Parker comes I

will have told  him what you want. [25, 127]

b) Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will have felt it, you will have felt it terribly. [25, 128]

c) "I hope he will have fall into proper hands," continued the old man. [25, 130]

d) You will have completed it," answered the old gentleman with a courteous bow. [25, 131]

7) a) And you will have promised to talk to me all the time? [25, 168]

b) Will you have been always loved, and will you always be in love with love?[25,170]

c) Will she have made the world as mad as she has made me?[25,172]

From the fallowing examples it easy to understand that the author uses Future Perfect to state an event or action that will finish before an other action event in the future in the most cases and for expressing actions that are non continuous in the others.

2.4. The Future Perfect Continuous Verb Tense in the work of Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

1) a) I want you to lead such a life as will have been making the world respect you. [25, 30]

b) Well, you will have been telling me what it is. I want you to explain to me why you won't exhibit Dorian Gray's picture. I want the real reason." [25, 78]

c) "I will have been telling you, said Hallward; but an expression of perplexity came over his face. [25, 79]

d) I will have being absolutely nothing done with it. [25, 143]

e) Who will have been rummaging in the weeds on the other side of the grave, said, “Look at this.” [25,175]

f) I think unconsciously I will have been expecting a friend, a guide… [25, 178]

2) a) I won’t have been certainly encouraging them. [25, 186]

b) You won’t have been always liked me, Dorian," he replied. [25, 194]

3.a) All those things will have been happening for so long so they will have been seemed almost normal… [25, 196]

  Thus, in this novel the author use all future tenses, the Future Simple is the most common. It is used in many situations such as when making promises or predictions in the novel. Oscar Wilde used just few constructions of Future Perfect Continuous tense to emphasize how long an event will be in progress at a future time and represent a continuous action that stated at some point, and continues into some point in the future.

CONCLUSIONS

Having done our research work we came to the conclusion that. There are various means of expressing the idea of futurity in English; among them, future tense simple indicates only that the action takes place in the future, but it does not indicate if in the near future or later. Be going to future is used to express a future action close to the speaking moment or a future action which will take place because of a present intention. A future action planned at a present moment is usually expressed by the present tense continuous whereas a definite future action which will take place according to a schedule or a previous established program is expressed by the present simple tense There are four main tense forms which express future action: Future Simple, Future Continuous, Simple Future Perfect verb tense, Future Perfect Continuous Verb Tense. In our research wok we gave detailed information about each of these tenses that included the description of formation and the cases of the main usage of these tenses. Having read the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde we investigated the peculiarities of the ways of expressing future action in this novel and found as many examples as possible to demonstrate the cases of the future action usage.

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