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The reference covers the future perfect continuous tense, including how to use it and the time expressions related to it. It aims to provide detailed information and rules to help you use this tense accurately.
You will also find examples and pictures to illustrate the tense. This information will support you in forming grammatically correct sentences.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The Future Perfect Continuous describes actions that will continue up to a certain point in the future. It is formed by combining the modal “will“, the auxiliary verb “have“, “been“, and the present participle of the main verb (ending in -ing).
Positive sentence structure:
S + will + have + been + V-ing (present participle) + …
Example:
- We will have been living in this house for 10 years by next month.
Negative Sentence Structure:
S + will + not + have + been + V-ing (present participle) + …
Example:
- I won’t have been travelling to New York for 2 years by the end of October.
Question Form:
Will + S + have + been + V-ing (present participle) + …?
Example:
- Will you have been eating vegetables for three months?
Using this tense helps you focus on the continuous nature of the action all the way until a specific point in the future. Be sure to use the correct structure for positive, negative, and question forms to clearly convey your message.
How to Use the Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The future perfect continuous tense is used to describe actions that will continue up to a specific point in the future. You often use this tense to show the duration of an ongoing activity or when something ends just before another action.
Examples:
- James will have been teaching at the university for more than a year by the time he leaves for Asia.
- I will be tired when I get home because I will have been walking for over an hour.
Time Expressions Used with Future Perfect Progressive
- By this year/ month/ week
- Next year/ month/ week
- For + an hour, for 5 years
- By then
- Since morning, since 1995
- By tomorrow
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