1. Future In The Past
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Made by Ivan Khanjzhin, Kseny Kremenetskaya
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2. Future in the Past tenses
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Future in the Past Tenses are used in subordinate
clauses, which depend from principal clause with a
predicate in the past tense for expressing of an
action in the future.
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Briefly, Future in the Past is used in complex
sentences and expresses a plan of an action:
I thought I would come by the morning train.
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P.S: Sometimes Future in the Past tenses mean not
only future actions:
I said I should come today, and so I'm here!

3. Future in the Past tenses:
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Future in the Past Simple
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Future in the Past Progressive
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Future in the Past Perfect
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Future in the Past Perfect Progressive

4. 
Future in the Past Simple is used for expressing
usual, regular actions in the Future viewed from the
Past:
He said he would soon take up French.
Future in the Past Simple

5. Утвердительная форма
Отрицательная форма
I /We should work
He/she/it/you/they would work
I/We should not work
He/she/it/you/they would not work
Вопросительная форма
Вопросительно-отрицательная
форма
Should I/We work?
Would he /she/it/you/they work?
Should I/We not work?
Would he/she/it/you/they not work?
Formation of the Future
Simple in the Past

6. 
Application rules for the
Future Continuous in the Past are the same as for the
Future Continuous. But FCITP is used for expressing of
an action in the Future from the past point of view:
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He knew that at that time the patrols would bе searching
the аrеа where they had lost him.
Future in the Past
Progressive

7. AFFIRMATIVE
NEGATIVE
INTERROGATIVE NEGATIVE
INTERROGATIVE
I/We
Should be speaking
He/she/it/you would be speaking
/they
Should not be
speaking
Should be speaking?
Should be speaking?
would not be
speaking
would we/ you/ they be
speaking?
would we/ you/ they
not be speaking?
Future In The Past
Progressive

8. 
Future in the Past Perfect expresses an action that
will be finished by direct moment in the future which is
predicted in the past:
He realized that he would have finished his task long
before midnight.
Future in the Past
Perfect

9. Affirmative
Negative
I/We should have worked
I/We should not have worked
He/she/it/you/they would have worked He/she/ it/you/they would not
have worked
Interrogative
Negative-interrogative
Should I/We have worked?
Should I/We not have worked?
Would he/she/it/you/they have worked Would he/she/ it/you/they not
?
have worked?
Future in the Past Perfect

10. 
Future in the Past Perfect Progressive is used
for expressing of long-term action,
which will begin before current moment in the future
within the past
and should be finishing during this moment.
Used very seldom, even in pedantic style.
He said he would have been living here for ten years next year.
Future in the Past
Perfect Progressive

11. Affirmative
I/We should have been working
He/she/ it/you/they would have
been working
Negative
I/We should not have been working
He/she/it/you/they would not have
been working
Interrogative
Negative-interrogative
Should I/We have been working?
Would he/she/ it/you/they have
been working?
Should I/We not have been working?
Would he/she/it/you/they not have
been working?
Future in the Past Perfect
Progressive

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Russian site about English tenses:
http://www.native-english.ru/grammar/futinp
English sites about English tenses:
http://www.englishtenses.com
http://forum.wordreference.com
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