future continuous future perfect

future continuous future perfect

Future continuous

form: will+be+ing

example: I will be writing letters tomorrow morning.

Future continuous

will be in progress at a specific time in the future:

When you finish school tomorrow I will be working in the office.

Try to telephone before 8 p.m. because after that we will be watching a match.

Future continuous

we see the action as new, different or temporary:

Today we're taking the bus but next week we'll be taking the train.

He'll be staying with his parents for several months while his father is in recovery.

Future perfect

We use the future perfect simple (will/won't have + past participle) to talk about something that will be completed before a specific time in the future.

Future perfect

The guests are coming at 8 p.m. I'll have finished cooking by then.

On 9 October we'll have been married for 50 years.

Will you have gone to bed when I get back?

Future perfect

We can use phrases like by or by the time (meaning 'at some point before') and in or in a day's time / in two months' time / in five years' time etc. (meaning 'at the end of this period') to give the time period in which the action will be completed.

Future perfect

I won't have written all the reports by next week.

By the time we arrive, the kids will have gone to bed.

I'll have finished in an hour and then we can watch a film.

In three years' time, I'll have graduated from university.