A given language may have more than one way to express futurity. English, for example, often refers to future events using present tense forms or other structures such as the "going-to" future, besides the canonical form with "will/shall". In addition, the verb forms used for the future tense can also be used to express other types of meaning; English again provides examples of this (see English modal verbs for the various meanings that both "will" and "shall" can have besides simply expressing futurity).