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The future perfect tense

A. Study the first three sentences and underline the future


events which will be completed first.

1. By the time we take the national exam, we will have finished all our
courses.
2. By the time I get home, my father will have come back from work.
3. My brother will have left for work by the time I get up tomorrow.
4. Most of you will have got a job by 2028.
5. By the end of this school year, we will have been studying English
for 4 years.
6. By the time Mr. Jones retires, he will have been working for 40
years.
7. I’ll go to bed at 10:00 p.m. tonight. By 6:00 a.m. tomorrow, I will
have been
sleeping for 8 hours.

B. Read the sentences above and fill in the following table.

future perfect simple future perfect continuous


Will have finished Will have been studying
…………………………………… ………………………………………
……….. ………..
…………………………………… ………………………………………
……….. ………..
…………………………………… ………………………………………
……….. ………..

C. Complete the following rules:

Future perfect simple:


Affirmative form: subject + will have + ……………………..
Negative form: subject + will + ……………….. + have + past
participle
Interrogative form: Will + …………………….. + have + past
participle
Future perfect continuous:
Affirmative form: subject + will have been + verb +
……………………..
Negative form: subject + will + ……………….. + have been +
verb + ing
Interrogative form: Will + …………………….. + have been + verb
+ ing

D. Support the following uses of the future perfect with


examples from the sentences above.

1. The future perfect simple is used with ‘by + a point in time in the
future’ to
show that an activity will be completed before another time or event
in the future.

2. The future perfect continuous is used to focus on the duration of an


activity that will be in progress before another time or event in the
future.

E. Put the verbs in brackets in the ‘future perfect simple’.


1. By this time tomorrow, I
……………………………………………………….. (finish) the project.
2. Kate ………………………………………………………… (clean) the entire house
by lunch time.
3. I ………………………………………………………………….. (read) this short
story by 7 o'clock.
4. By the time she wakes up,
he ………………………………………………………… (go) to work.
5. The Smiths
……………………………………………………………………. (come) by dinner time.
6. When the police arrive the robbers
……………………………………………………. (run) away.
7. They …………………………………………………………………. (build) the house
by September.
8. By 2021, my cousin ……………………………………………………………………..
(spend) three
years in Canada.

F. Put the verbs in brackets in the ‘future perfect continuous’.


1. By 2021, I ………………………………………………………………… (live) in
Belfaa for 10 years.
2. They ………………………………………………………………. (work) here for 20
years by 2020.
3. By the end of this year, we
…………………………………………………………………. (study) in
Ibn Zohr High School for 3 years.
4. When we get there,
we ................................................................................. (drive) for
more than 4 hours.
5. Lisa ................................................................................. (jog) for an hour
by 5 o’clock.
6. She …………………………………………………………………………… (learn)
embroidery for two
months by the end of December.

G. Put the verbs in brackets in the ‘future perfect simple’ or


‘continuous’.
1. The kids ………………………………………………………………. (have) dinner
by 8:00 o’clock .
2. by Next May, I …………………………………………………………….
(watch) that serial
for three years.
3. By the time my father arrives, I
………………………………………………………………. (leave).
4. By the end of this season, L. Messi
……………………………………………………………..
(play) for Barcelona for 17 years.
5. Mike …………………………………………………………………. (buy) a new car
by next Sunday.
6. By 5:00 o’clock tomorrow, the police
………………………………………………………… (look)
for the missing boy for 48 hours.

ByBy
thethetime
timeI’m 50, II will
I’m50, will have…
have…
. had
. hadtwotwo
kids.
kids.
. bought
. bought a house in in
a house Moscow.
Berlin.
. learned
. learned German,
Russian, butbut I won’t
I won’t
havehave retired
retired yet.
yet.

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