FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
Singular number plural number
First person I shall have received We shall have received
Second person You will have received You will have received
Third person She will have received They will have received
USES:
The future perfect expresses an action that is expected to be completed by a certain time in the future.
Example:
We will have completed our work by the time our sisters arrive.
It is used to express the speaker’s belief that something has taken place. In such sentences it does not express the future.
Example:
“You will have discussed the plans how to celebrate the function”, said my mother.
It is also used for an action which at a given future time will be in the past.
Example:
In two years time, I shall have earned my degree.
A completed action before something in the future.
Examples:
By the time you arrived, I will have finished the project.
By next summer, she will have graduated from college.
Duration before something in the future.
Examples:
By Friday, she will have had my car for a whole week
She will have been in Paris for six months by the time she leaves.
Question form
Examples:
Do you think you will have finished the project before I arrived?
Will she have graduated by then?
What will you have done by the end of your time here?
Negative statements
Examples:
By this time tomorrow, she won’t have had enough time to finish the essay
By 2020, I won’t have completed my PHD
The Future Perfect Tense is used to talk about actions that will be completed by a
certain future time.
Examples:
I shall have written my exercise by then.
He will have left before you go to see him.
By the end of this month I will have worked here for five years.