The Grammatical and Semantic Use of the Future Tense in the Tragedies of Euripides

The motive behind any literary text is not just to write, but to create a kind of linguistic communication between the writer and the reader or viewer in order to analyze and interpret the writer’s messages through the context of the text and to elicit and reveal the different linguistic methods adopted by the writer. From this, this study came to show the grammatical functions of the future tense and its significance in the Greek language by extrapolating the evidence in the plays of the Greek poet Euripides, and reviewing its most important functions within the declarative or interrogative sentence and highlighting the most important formulas indicating the future in addition to the various connotations of the future tense within the context of the text, where it is considered. Time is one of the most important linguistic elements in addition to the distinctive role of the body in the Greek language and their active role in the poetic text to clarify the specific idea that the poet wants to communicate to the reader .