The Future Perfect Tense

Positive:
By six pm tonight:

♥ I will have finished this book

♥ You will have studied the English tenses
♥ She will have cooked dinner
♥ He will have arrived
♥ We will have met Julie
♥ It will have stopped raining
♥ They will have left Japan

Negative:
By next week,

♥ I will not have finished this book

♥ You will not have studied the English tenses
♥ She will not have cooked dinner
♥ He will not have arrived
♥ We will not have met Julie
♥ It will not have stopped raining
♥ They will not have left Japan

'Yes / no' questions:

By next year,

♥ will I have finished writing this book?

♥ will you have studied all the English verb tenses?
♥ will she have graduated?
♥ will he have got married?
♥ will it have got colder?
♥ will we have met your boyfriend?
♥ will they have left their jobs?

'Wh' questions:

♥ When will I have finished writing this book?

♥ Why will you have studied all the English verb tenses by tomorrow?
♥ When will she have been here three weeks?
♥ Why will he have got married before June?
♥ Why will it have got colder by May?
♥ How will we have met your boyfriend by tonight?
♥ When will they have left their jobs?

How to Use the Future Perfect Tense

 1: We use the future perfect to say 'how long' for an action that starts before and
continues up to another action or time in the future. Usually we need 'for'. We can also
use the future perfect continuous here so we often use the future perfect simple
with stative verbs.

♥ When we get married, I'll have known Robert for four years.
♥ At 4 o'clock, I'll have been in this office for 24 hours.

Sometimes we could also use the present perfect in the same situation. But we like to
use the future perfect to make the time an easy number.

♥ I've lived here for 11 months and three weeks. (This is correct, but the time is not an
easy number.)
♥ On Tuesday, I will have lived here for one year. (A much easier number.)

2: We use the future perfect with a future time word, (and often with 'by') to talk about
an action that will finish before a certain time in the future, but we don't know exactly
when.

♥ By 10 o'clock, I will have finished my homework.

(= I will finish my homework some time before 10, but we don't know exactly when.)
♥ By the time I'm sixty, I will have retired.
(= I will retire sometime before I'm sixty. Maybe when I'm fifty-nine, maybe when I'm
fifty-two.)

More examples:

She will have returned home by the time you leave work. 

– Ela já vai ter retornado para casa no horário que você sair do trabalho.
They will have finished all the homework before lunch time. 
– Eles terão finalizado toda a lição de casa antes do horário de almoço.
By the end of the month, you will have spent all your income. 
– Até o final do mês, você terá gasto todo o seu salário.
Before next week, she will have realized how good life can be for her.
-Antes da próxima semana, ela terá percebido como a vida pode ser boa para
ela.

My children will not have washed the dishes when I finish cleaning the house.

– Meus filhos não terão lavado a louça quando eu terminar de limpar a casa.
Will you have finished all this amount of work by tomorrow? 
– Você terá terminado todo este volume de trabalho até amanhã?
Won’t they have all set up before I can pick them up?
– Eles não vão ter tudo pronto antes de eu poder buscá-los?