Our core words, be, have, and do, have the word shape “will” in the field for the grammatical FUTURE. Let us picture.
In our FUTURE field, we can say we will be, will have, or will do, but how could we envision the word will on its own?
We do not say for the word “will” itself,
*will will.
Let us compare it for all our fields of time.
We noted in ■CHAPTER 1, humans have evolved grammars along with perception for earthly space. There has never really been at hand any fourth or time independently dimension to make language. The real time we people live in is always our PRESENT.
We can make predictions on the real-time future, but we never can move into it, as there hardly would be a way to take our space with us: well, our dimensional bodies?
We use PRESENT grammatical forms to talk about the future, and “will” is one of those forms we can use to map cognitively, in our minds, on the real-time future.
Everyday living allows quite exact predictions, as for one person, or a family, or a group of people, with school or work. It is owing to this living experience that we have standard language uses where the verb form “will”, grammatically a PRESENT shape, maps on the real-time future.
We yet probably would not say that human lives sum up to a number. The future is not an equation, and it becomes — all the time — in our present. The future is an open context.
Let us compare all our core words
for the PRESENT, PAST, and FUTURE.
Our core words are verbs. A verb is a word saying what we do, what others do, or what happens. The Bonus has some more talk about ■LANGUAGE FORM and ■VERBS.
Language form
To learn Aspect and infinitive or participle syntax, virtual words may be simply the best.
Appendix 1. The verb
We can say the infinitive on its own is person and time neutral or objective, providing ancillary time.