WHEN TO USE IT: The future in the past is used to discuss something in the past that you thought would happen in the future. It not important if you were correct or not or whether the action ultimately ended up happening. Use future in the past to discuss a plan or a promise that was made in the past. Or, for a more precise but complicated explanation, SIL explains that "[f]uture-in-past tense is an absolute-relative tense that refers to a time located in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference point that itself must be located in the past relative to the moment of utterance."
From: ESL Radius
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