FUTURE PERFECT/

CONTINUOUS
Andrea Pico and Natalia Polo
 FUTURE PERFECT

● Indicates that an action will have been completed (finished

or "perfected") at some point in the future.

Structure: "will"+ "have" + past participle of the verb

(regular or irregular in form)

Positive form: Subject + auxiliary verb main verb+ object
Ex: He will have completed his project by saturday

Negative form: Subject+ will NOT + past participle of object

Ex: We will not have eaten breakfast before we get to the airport tomorrow
morning.

Interrogative form: Will+ subject+ Have+ past participle object

Ex: Will they have finished decorating the float before the parade?
PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES THAT OFTEN GO WITH FUTURE
PERFECT
● By this time next week, Linda will have left for her trip.

● Three days from now, we will have finished our project.

● At midnight, the party will have ended.

● Will you have eaten already?

● Chester will not have arrived by the time the parade is over.

● When I travel to France, I will have been to ten countries.

● My sister will have cleaned the bathroom before the party.

● As soon as someone buys this chair, I will have sold all the furniture I wanted to get rid of.
WHEN NOT TO USE THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
The future perfect tense is only for actions that will be complete before a specified

point in the future. In other words, the action you’re talking about must have a

deadline. If you don’t mention a deadline, use the simple future tense instead of

the future perfect tense.

Correct Linda will leave.

Incorrect Linda will have left.

 Future perfect continuous
❑ The future perfect continuous, also sometimes called the future
perfect progressive, is a verb tense that describes actions that will
continue up until a point in the future

❑ When we describe an action in the future perfect continuous tense,

we are projecting ourselves forward in time and looking back at the
duration of that activity
 EXAMPLES
● In November, I will have been working at my company for three
years.
● At five o’clock, I will have been waiting for thirty minutes.
● When I turn thirty, I will have been playing piano for twenty-one
years.
STRUCTURE
Non action Verbs Do Not Use the Future Perfect Continuous
● Remember that non action verbs like to be, to seem, or to know are not
suited to the future perfect continuous tense. Instead, these verbs take the
future perfect tense, which is formed with will + have + past participle.
● On Thursday, I will have been knowing you for a week.
● On Thursday, I will have known you for a week.
● I will have been reading forty-five books by Christmas.
 Activity
● https://www.e-grammar.org/future-perfect-simple-continuous/test1-exerci
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