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Future Perfect Tense

Uses

We use the future perfect tense to talk about

1. a completed action that will be completed before a given moment in the future.
For example,
y They will have cleaned out the apartment before they hand us the key.

y By the time we reach, Mother will have cooked dinner for us.
y The boys will have returned from college by 5 o’clock.

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I will have eaten. I will not have eaten. Will I have eaten?

You will have eaten. You will not have eaten. Will you have eaten?

He will have eaten. He will not have eaten. Will he have eaten?
She will have eaten. She will not have eaten. Will she have eaten?

It will have eaten. It will not have eaten. Will it have eaten?
We will have eaten. We will not have eaten Will we have eaten?

They will have eaten. They will not have eaten. Will they have eaten?

Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Uses

We use the future perfect continuous tense to talk about

1. an action that will begin before a definite moment in the future, will continue upto
that moment and will also continue at that moment. For example,

y By 2019, Sunil will have been staying in Sweden for ten years.
y When I finish this course, I will have been learning French for five years.

Structure

Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I will have been eating. I will not have Will I have been eating?
been eating.

You will have You will not have Will you have
been eating. been eating. been eating?

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