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Future Continuous
The future continuous tense, also known as the future progressive
tense, is a verb tense that shows an ongoing action in the future. It is
the future version of the present continuous tense, which uses a similar
construction.

Present continuous Future continuous:

I will be watching my
I am watching my
shows from lunch until
shows.
dinner.
Cambiamos el verb to be por el will be
 Subject Will be Present Participle of the verb (ing) The rest of the sentence
Af rmative
In the auditorium this
She Will be speaking
evening.

Present Participle of the verb

Subject Will not Be The rest of the sentence.
(ing)
Negative
He Will not be Joining Us this morning.

Present participle of the verb

Question Will subject Be
(ing)
The rest of the sentence

In the sequel next

Will She Be Acting
year?
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Like all other continuous tenses, you cannot use the future continuous tense with stative verbs* Use
the simple future tense with stative verbs instead.

Future continuous tense (incorrect): I will be needing help with the repairs tomorrow.

Simple future tense (correct): I will need help with the repairs tomorrow.

*Stative verbs often relate to:

• thoughts and opinions: agree, believe, doubt, guess, imagine, know, mean, recognise, remember,
suspect, think, understand

• feelings and emotions: dislike, hate, like, love, prefer, want, wish
• senses and perceptions: appear, be, feel, hear, look, see, seem, smell, taste
• possession and measurement: belong, have, measure, own, possess, weigh.
 Future Perfect
Subject + will have + past participle + the rest of the sentence.

★The future perfect tense is a verb tense used to describe actions that will be
completed at some point in the future before another action or time.

★It is formed by using the auxiliary verb "will have" followed by the past participle
of the main verb.

★The future perfect tense is often used to indicate completion or accomplishment

of an action by a certain future time or before another future event.

★It helps to convey the idea that something will have been nished or achieved by
a speci c point in the future.
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 Subject + will have + past participle + the rest of the sentence.

Subject Will have Past participle The rest of the sentence

She Will have completed Her project.

 Past Perfect Continuous
Unlike the present perfect continuous, which indicates an action that began in
the past and has continued up to the present, the past perfect continuous
indicates something that began in the past, continued in the past, and also
ended at a de ned point in the past.

Subject Had been Verb + ing Rest of the sentence

Milk out the carton

He Had been drinking when mom walked into
the kitchen.
At the company for ve
I Had been working years when I got the
promotion
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When, for, since, and before are words that you may see used alongside the past perfect
continuous tense.

Martha had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg.

The program that was terminated had been running smoothly since .

Elise had been playing the piano for thirty- ve years when she was nally asked to do a
solo with the local orchestra.

He had been throwing rocks at her window for ve minutes before she nally came out
on the balcony and said, “Hey, Romeo.”
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Passive Voice
Active voice: the subject is something, or it does the action of the verb in the
sentence. The chef cooked the meal.

Passive voice: the subject is acted upon by some other performer of the verb.

Subject Verb to be Past participle Agent (by phrase)

The meal Was cooked By the chef.