The document explains the future perfect tense and future perfect progressive tense used to describe actions that will be completed by a specific time in the future. It provides examples of how to form sentences and questions in these tenses, along with exercises for practice. Time expressions are crucial for clarity in indicating when these activities will take place.

1. GRAMMAR
FUTURE PERFECT TENSE

2. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE
The future perfect simple is used to explain an
activity that will be completed by a certain time
in the future. We add time expressions such as
by the time, by then, by the year 2008, by
March 25th to describe these kinds of activities.

3. 1. FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE

4. EXAMPLES:
1.By this time next year, we will
have been married for 30 years.
2.If all goes well, by June 2012, I
will have finished my university
degree.

5. YES/NO QUESTIONS
FUTURE PERFECT SIMPLE
• To form Yes/No questions in the future perfect simple
tense use: Will/Won’t + Subject + have + past
participle form of the verb.

6. EXAMPLES:
1.Will she have gotten her
passport by then?
2.Won't you have sent the
documents by Thursday?

7. 2. FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
• The future perfect progressive tense is used
to talk about an action that will already
have started and will still be happening by
a certain time in the future. We use time
expressions such as for 30 minutes and
since early morning to describe the length
of time the activity has already going on.

8. 2. FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
• To form a sentence in the future perfect
progressive use will + have + been verbing
(present participle) form of the verb.

9. EXAMPLES:
1.By the time you get here, we
will have been building the house
for a year.
2.By 2008, Adam will have been
selling sports equipment for 10
years.

10. EXAMPLES:
 By next November, I will have received my promotion.
 By the time he gets home, she is going to have cleaned the
entire house.
 I am not going to have finished this test by 3 o'clock.
 Will she have learned enough Chinese to communicate before
she moves to Beijing?
 Sam is probably going to have completed the proposal by the
time he leaves this afternoon.
 By the time I finish this course, I will have taken ten tests.
 How many countries are you going to have visited by the time
you turn 50?

11. Future Perfect Simple and Future Perfect
Progressive
Exercises

12. Fill in the correct form verb in either the future perfect
simple or future perfect progressive tense.
1. the time I start my shift, Dr. Frazier _________ for 18 hours straight. (work)
2. Sheila ____ the scholarship by the time she starts school in September. (get)
3. By this time next month, I hope they ____building the community center.
(finish)
4. Prof. Adams ______ at this university for 25 years by the time he retires in
June. (teach)
5. By this time tomorrow night we ______ in Australia. (arrive)

13. ANSWERS:
1. will have been working
2. will have gotten
3. will not have seen
4. will have been teaching
5. will have arrived