Category: IELTS Grammar

We have seen how this works in the present tense. What about the past and the future. We can use about to in the past when something interrupts something else. It is quite easy, you just need to conjugate the verb “to be” correctly. Remember that the past tense forms…

 “About to” is a very handy phrase to have when you want to express that something will happen in the near future. The simplest form of about to is formed by using the “be” form of the verb You are, I am, it is etc, plus about to plus the…

(be) + about to + infinitive We use “about to” to refer to something that will happen very soon, or in the very near future. Do you have an umbrella, it’s about to rain The TV show is about to start. Please fasten your seat belts, the plane is about…