Infinitive: Future Meaning

Infinitive: Future Meaning

When does infinitive  tell the future?

 

In expressions like the life to come (= life after death), the world to come, his wife to be (= his future wife), the infinitive has a future meaning, and is similar to a relative clause with be (= the life/world that is to come, etc.)

[source: Practical English Usage]

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