Future Perfect and Future Continuous

Future Perfect and Future Continuous

By Marío Medina

Future Perfect

We use Future Perfect to say that something will be finished before a certain time in the future.

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This tense is frequently used with the time expressions by Saturday/March/2030... or in two weeks/months, etc. ​

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Future Perfect

Future Perfect

By + a time expression= at the latest. With in, you can say in six months.

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We form the negative with won't have + past participle and make questions by inverting the subject and will/won't. ​

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Future Perfect

Examples:

The decorators will have finished painting by Tuesday, so we can move back into the apartment then.

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Laura won't have arrived before dinner, so I'll leave some food on the stove for her.​

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Future Perfect

Future Continuous

We use it to say that an action will be in progress at a certain time in the future.

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We'll have dinner at 8:00 (=we will start dinner at 8:00)

we'll be having dinner at 8:00 (=at 8:00 we will already have started having dinner)​

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Future Continuous

Future Continuous

We sometimes use the future continuous, like the present continuous, to talk about things that are already planned or decided.

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We form the negative with won't be + verb + -ing and make questions by inverting the subject and will/won't.​

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Future Continuous

Examples:

Don't call between 7:00 and 8:00 because we'll be having dinner then.

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Come at 7:00 because we won't be starting dinner until 8:00.

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I'll be going to the supermarket later. Do you want anything?​

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Future Continuous