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future continuous tense vs.

the future perfect continuous


tense
comparison
The difference between future continuous and future perfect
continuous is that we use future continuous to predict the future while
we use future perfect continuous to talk about an ongoing action that will
finish before another.

• Future continuous: I will be working as a sales assistant from November


to December. 

• Future perfect continuous: In December, I will have been working as a


sales assistant for a year.
When we want to refer to the set of events that continuously happens before
a future event, we use future perfect continuous.
• They will lose their voice because they will have been singing non-stop
Not “the will be singing” we are naming to events rather than showing what
is the cause of what

When you want to be more polite while trying to ask a question, you will
use future continuous tense
• Will you be attending the event? 
Not “will you have been attending” its not as polite as first one.

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