Future Perfect Continuous Tense

 

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE

 

                                         Singular number                             plural number

First person             I shall have been finishing            we shall have been finishing

Second person        you will have been finishing        you will have been finishing

Third person           He will have been finishing          they will have been finishing

 

 

USES:

The future perfect continuous tense is used to express an action that will have been going on at or before some point of time in the future.

Example:

By next June, I shall have been completing my studies.

 

Cause of something in the future

Examples:

Her English will be excellent by the time she visits the U.S. because she will have been studying it for five years.

He will be tired by the time he arrives because he will have been traveling all day.

 

Duration before something in the future.

Examples:

He will have been waiting for an hour when she finally arrives.

She will have been working at the company for ten years by the time I retire.

 

The Future Perfect Continuous tense is used for actions which will be in progress

over a period of time that will end in the future.

Examples:

By next May we shall have been living here for three years.

I’ll have been teaching for twenty-five years next June.

 

This tense is not very common.

 

 

Future Perfect Tense

 

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.

 

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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.

 

Future Continuous Tense

FUTURE  CONTINUOUS TENSE

 

                                  Singular number               plural number

First person             I will be coming              we will be coming

Second person       you will be coming         you will be coming     

Third person           she will be coming         they will be coming

 

USES:

The future continuous tense is used to express an action that will be in progress at a given time in future or in the normal course.

Example:

We will be playing from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.

They’ll be coming to visit us next week.

She will be taking an exam at 2 p.m. tomorrow, so  don’t call her then.

I will be waiting for you when you arrive  tonight.

He will be watching TV, and she will be cooking dinner.

While she cooks dinner, he will be watching TV

When I enter the class, the teacher will be teaching, some students will be taking notes, and my best friend will be trying to stay awake.

 

We use the Future Continuous Tense to talk about actions which will be in progress

at a time in the future.

Examples:

I suppose it will he raining when we start.

This time tomorrow I will be sitting on the beach in Singapore.

“Can I see you at 5 o'clock?” – “Please don t come then I will be watching the tennis

match on TV.

 

We also use this tense to talk about actions in the future which are already planned

or which are expected to happen in the normal course of things.

Examples:

• I will be staying here till Sunday.

• He will be meeting us next week.

• The postman will be coming soon

 

We use be to + .base form to talk about official plans and arrangements.

Examples:

The Prime Minister is to visit Germany next week.

The conference is to discuss “Global warming”.

 

Be to is used in a formal style, often in news reports Be is usually left out in headlines,

Example:

Prime Minister to visit Germany.