Compound Future Forms

Compound Future Tenses

By Andrea Ungor

THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS

​WE USE THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS FORM ...

1. TO TALK ABOUT AN ACTION THAT WILL BE IN PROGRESS​ AT A CERTAIN POINT IN THE FUTURE

2. ​TO TALK ABOUT A DEFINITE PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT

3. TO SPECULATE ABOUT SOMETHING HAPPENING NOW

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She's well-prepared, she won't be worrying about her exams.

Tuti, hogy nem aggódik a vizsgái miatt.

FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE

​WE USE THE FUTURE PERFECT FORM ...

1. TO ​SAY HOW LONG A SITUATION WILL HAVE EXISTED BY A CERTAIN POINT OF TIME IN THE FUTURE

2. TO TALK ABOUT A COMPLETED ACTION IN THE FUTURE

3. TO SPECULATE ABOUT A COMPLETED ACTION IN THE PRESENT​

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My granny is good at keeping secrets. He won't have told anyone about it! ​

Tuti, hogy nem mondta el senkinek a titkodat!

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

​WE USE THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS FORM ...

1. TO SAY HOW LONG AN ACTION WILL BE IN PROGRESS AT A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME

2. ​TO TALK ABOUT A CONTINUOUS ACTION IN THE FUTURE TO EXPLAIN A GIVEN STUATION

3. ​TO SPECULATE ABOUT A CONTINUOUS OR REPEATED ACTION THAT HAS CONTINUED UP TO THE PRESENT

I don't think she's ready yet. She'll have been daydreaming all day. ​

Tuti, hogy egész nap csak álmodozott!

we never use

the passive

Some text here about the topic of discussion

​With the future continuous forms

​

future continuous

and

future perfect continuous​

Multiple Choice

I _________ to London tomorrow. Would you like a lift?

• will be driving

• will have driven

• will have been driving

Multiple Choice

Choose the WRONG option.

You can use my bike tomorrow if you want, I _____.

• won't need it

• won't be needing it

• don't need it

• 'm not needing it

Multiple Select

Choose all of the correct answers.

I'm so unhappy. We're moving house tomorrow. We _____ since I was born.

• 'll have lived here

• 'll have been living here'

• 've been living here

• lived here

Complete the sentences with the correct future form of the verbs in brackets.

Multiple Choice

         1     Don't phone grandma after ten thirty because she _______________________ (sleep) then.

• will be sleeping

• will have slept

• will have been sleeping

Multiple Choice

2           I can't believe it, but at the end of this year I _______________________ (work) here for ten years.

• will be working

• 'll have been working

• 'll have worked

Multiple Choice

         3     Sorry that we can't come to your wedding party. We _______________ (visit) our cousins in London that night.

• 'll be visiting

• 'll have visited

• 'll have been visiting

Multiple Choice

         4    In a hundred years' time, the world _______________________ (run out) of fossil fuels like oil and natural gas.

• 'll be running

• 'll have been running out

• 'll have run out

Fill in the Blanks

Matt                 Most likely Mike will have heard about the concert by the time we see him on Monday.

Claire               Yes. He

(probably / tell) by Jenny before then. They're good friends.

Rewrite the sentences using ...

1. the future continuous

2. the future perfect

3. the future perfect continuous​

Fill in the Blanks

I imagine the film has finished by now.

The film

by now.

Fill in the Blanks

I expect they've been discussing the party for weeks.

They

the party for weeks.

Fill in the Blanks

I doubt that you are telling me the truth.

You

me the truth.

Fill in the Blanks

I expect he wants to spend the weekend with his friends.

He

to spend the weekend with his freiends.