Future Perfect

Future Perfect
Continuous
Future Perfect Tense
The future perfect tense is quite an easy
tense to understand and use. The future
perfect tense talks about the past in the
future.
The future perfect tense expresses action
in the future before another action in the
future. This is the past in the future.
How do we make the Future Perfect
Tense?

subject + auxiliary + auxiliary + main verb

verb WILL verb HAVE

invariable invariable past

participle

will have V3
Sentences in the future perfect tense
Usage of Future Perfect Tense

The Future Perfect is used for an

action which will be finished
before a stated future time
Time expressions
By, by the time, before, until, by
then, etc.
Future Perfect Continuous
We use the future
perfect continuous tense
to talk about a long
action before some point
in the future.
 How do we make the Future Perfect
Continuous Tense?

subject + auxiliary + auxiliary + auxiliary + Main verb

verb verb verb
WILL HAVE BE

invariable invariabl past present

e participle participle

will have been base + ing

Sentences in the future perfect
continuous tense
Usage of Future Perfect Continuous
Tense
 The Future Perfect Continuous is
used to emphasise the duration of an
action up to a certain time in the
future
 The Future Perfect Continuous is
NOT used with the state verbs.
Time expressions
By…for