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How often do we plan to achieve any success in the future, discuss, negotiate deadlines. Future Perfect will help you convey your aspirations, goals and intentions in English.

Like all other perfect tenses, Future Perfect speaks of the completion of an action, but in the future. The form is very similar to its counterparts Perfect, but it has fewer uses. And some of them have a spicy twist.

Education

As with all future tenses, you will need auxiliary verbs will/ shall. Remember that shall is used with the subjects I and we, and with all the rest will. Although this feature is a little contradicting itself. Rules of modern in English allow the use of will with all pronouns. In addition, we will need have, which at this time also performs the function auxiliary verb. The predicate is in the form V 3 or V ed(3rd column of irregular verbs or, if the verb is regular, then add - ed). Let's take a look at how it all fits together. various types offers.

narrative	negative	interrogative
I shall have spent	I shall not have spent	Shall I have spent?
He (she, it) will have spent	He (she, it) will not have spent	Will he (she, it) have spent?
You will have spent	You will not have spent	Will you have spent?
We shall have spent	We shall not have spent	Shall we have spent?
They will have spent	They will not have spent	Will they have spent?

And of course, in order for your speech to reach the thoughts of the interlocutor faster, you can use short or abbreviated forms . They are absolutely standard.

I shall = I'll, They will = they'll

I shall have spent = I'll have spent

shall not= shan't

will not = won't

He won't have spent

Using Future Perfect Tense

Fortunately, this tense has only two uses that are easy to understand.

Action will end at some point in the future , which can be indicated by the circumstance of time, for example, before (before), by (to), by the time (by that time), by then (by that time or then) or another future action. Often conjunctions such as till/untill are used, which are used only in negative sentences. Let's look at examples of Future Perfect in this sense.

The match will have been finished by 9.30. The match will end at 9:30.

Tomorrow is Ted and Ann's wedding anniversary. Tomorrow these man and woman will have been married for 25 years. It's Ted and Anna's birthday. Tomorrow, this man and woman will have been married for 25 years.

I think the game will have finished by the time when he comes. — I think the game will be over when he comes.

Chuck came to Russia some years ago. Next week he will have been here two years. Chuck came to Russia a few years ago. Next week will be 2 years since he's been here.

When Tom arrives, Jill will have gone to bed. When Tom arrives, Jill will be sleeping.

I will not have finished this work till you bring me my books. I won't finish my work until you bring my books.

Unfortunately, she will not have spoken to him untill he calls. Unfortunately, she won't talk to him until he calls.

Another case of use, which slightly complicates the picture of the perfect future tense with its specific features, can be called the transfer past intended action. It translates into Russian as “probably”, “should be”. But, you can immediately calm down, you will not often find such a phrase in colloquial speech. This construction, with a probability value, is more used in newspapers, magazines and other articles.

Everybody will have read in the papers about the president's decision. “Everyone must have read in the papers about the President's decision.

The reader will have noticed crazy prices on the market. The reader has probably noticed the crazy prices on the market.

Comparison of future tenses with Future Perfect

Future Perfect	Future Simple	Future Continuous	Future Perfect Continuous
A single action in the future that will be completed by a certain moment, which can be indicated by either a circumstance or another action.	One-time intended action. There is no moment or time for passing.	Long-term action in the future. The moment of flow, the time is exactly indicated.	A long-term action in the future that continues up to a certain point. The run times are accurate.
I shall have translated this article by 10 o'clock. I will have translated this article by 10 o'clock.	I will come there next year. - I'll be there at next year.	It will be raining tomorrow morning. - It will rain tomorrow morning.	By the 1st of September she will have been teaching at this school for 25 years. - By the first of September it will be 25 years since she teaches at this school.

This tense is also used in Passive Voice. The cases of application are identical to the active voice, but the form is slightly different.

will/ shall + have + been + V 3 (V ed)

The text will have been translated by the next lesson. — The text will be translated by the next lesson.

The composition will have been written by 5 o'clock tomorrow. The letter will have been written by 5 o'clock.

That's all the information on Future Perfect. In terms of education, you will have to strain a little and remember, but in the use of this tense, the task is much easier. If the moment or event is indicated by which the main action will be completed, then feel free to use the future completed tense.

To consider the question of how Future Perfect, we need to turn to the concept of the infinitive of the same name. The future tense is formed with the auxiliary verb will, and it is always followed by the indefinite form of the verb.

In our case, the grammatical verb construction will look like this:

Will + Have + Participle II, and everything to the right of the auxiliary verb is the Perfect Infinitive.

The infinitive is invariable verb form, so we have no right to make any changes to it. Under no circumstances should the has form be used or any auxiliary words be inserted between have and Participle II.

For Future Perfect, slightly different rules are used, so here you need to be a little more careful in some cases. Given the foregoing and the experience of studying Present Perfect and Past Perfect, several provisions can be deduced:

Pay attention to which verb is used to form Participle II. If it is not in the table of irregular verbs, then use the ending - ed (stayed, started). If it is in the table, then use the third form (run, taught, swum).
Perform all manipulations in interrogative or negative sentences only with the verb will - the rest of the construction should remain unchanged. See examples below.
Just as in the Past Perfect time, a moment in the future is needed before which the action we are describing will be performed. Often this is an event that happens according to a schedule or agreement, but sometimes we have to become unwitting predictors.
Another very important indicator- if a moment in the future is described by some landmark event, then it is most often placed in Present Simple time.

Now, in the Future Perfect time, the rules and examples do not seem too complicated to us, and we can write several sentences in interrogative, affirmative and negative forms.

Will you have written your poem by the time the poetry contest starts? Will you have written your poem by the time the poetry competition starts?

Nick will have seen that film the third time tomorrow evening. Tomorrow night Nick will see this film for the third time.

My parents will not have come home until seven o'clock in the evening. My parents won't come home until seven o'clock in the evening.

In Future Perfect, you can give examples of polite requests:

Mother, will you please have sent me some money by Tuesday? Mom, please send me some money by Tuesday.

Will you please have switched the heater on by 8 pm? Please turn on the heater by 8 pm.

Now solve in Future Perfect example sentences:

They will have (stop) training by Saturday.
Mark will not have (come) when his mother (bring) a new shirt.
Will girls have (watch) the whole series by September?

For Future Perfect, the table is easy to fill out. You should carefully reread the text, look through dictionaries and reference books. Fantasy will also play an important role - after all, you will have to predict various situations.

Future Perfect Tense (Future Perfect Tense)
Rules for the formation of time, word-signals
Example sentences with Future Perfect Tense

USE

The Future Perfect tense is used to express an action that will take place by a specified moment in the future (by tonight - by the evening, by the end of the year - by the end of the year, before - before, and so on).

I will have moved to a new apartment by the end of the month.

By the end of the month, I will have moved into a new apartment.

At the same time, it is important for us to emphasize the end of the action.

FORMATION OF TIMEFUTUREPERFECT

Consider the formation of affirmative, negative and interrogative forms of Future Perfect tense.

The affirmative form of the Future Perfect is formed using the auxiliary verb to have in the future tense, namely ‘ will have’ and the past tense verb, i.e. verb with ending -ed, or the 3rd form of irregular verbs - participles 2:

She will have arrived at the station by tonight.

She will arrive at the station in the evening.

They will have built a new house by the end of the year.

They will complete new house by the end of the year.

In the negative form to the auxiliary verb will a particle is added not, which has an abbreviated form won’ t.

Long name, long formula of education and only one function in the language. If you guessed it, we are talking about the Future Perfect Continuous or the Future Perfect Continuous and everything connected with it: the rules of education, use cases, pointer words.

Name

In English, there is not one, or even two ways of expressing the future tense. But today is not about that, or rather about one of the many means - about the temporary form of Future Perfect Continuous. It is translated into Russian as the Future Perfect Long time. With the concept of Future (Future) everything is simple: it describes an event that will occur in the future. But what kind of action this is - helps to understand the aspect of Perfect Continuous (Perfect-long or Perfect Long).

Already from the name it becomes clear that it indicates that the described action is a process that began and continued before another action or until a certain period of time. Combining these two components - time and aspect, we get the rule: the temporal form Future Perfect Continuous means that we have an event that will come before another future event and will last at this moment.

Rules and examples of Future Perfect Continuous tense

An explanation of when the Future Perfect Continuous is used and what it means will become clear with the help of sentences in English with translation:

Nextyear a famous scientist will have been studying animal habits for 10years- Next year it will be 10 years since the famous scientist studies the habits of animals.

When my sisters come home my mother will have been cleaning the flat for one hour- When my sisters come home, my mother will have been cleaning the room for an hour.

In all three examples, we have lengthy actions: will have been studying - studies, will have been taking part - takes part, will have been cleaning - cleans. The described events last for a certain period (for 10 years - for 10 years, for how many days - for how many days, for one hour - for one hour) and will last until a specific moment in the future (next year - in the next year, by that time - by this time).

However, they may stop during this period or continue further. The event can continue not only until the set time, but also until the intended action, as given in the third sentence: when my sisters come - when my sisters come.

Pay attention to the words that describe a specific time in the future. They are Future Perfect Continuous time markers. Other pointer words can be added to the same list: till/until - before, for 5 weeks - for five weeks, by the end of the hour/day/month/year - by the end of the hour/day/month /of the year.

Education

The long name of time implies a long formula of education. Indeed, it consists of several formulas combined into one. Will/Shall is an auxiliary verb in the future tense (Future). The construction of the Perfect aspect is the combination of the auxiliary verb have + the 3rd form of the verb, and the Continuous - be + verb + -ing. Their addition leads to the following construction: subject + will/shall + have been + main verb + -ing. About how it "works" in practice in affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences, says the table:

What have we learned?

Today we answered a number of questions about the Future Perfect Continuous time: when it is used, a grammatical formula, a negative and interrogative construction, basic pointer words.

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The future perfect tense is far from the most common tense form of expressing future events in English speech, since the scope of its use is rather narrow and specific. The predicate used in the Future Perfect form helps to express the fact that by a certain moment in the future the action will be completed, finished. Consider the following example:

The example shown shows the gap in time between one action in the future ( we get to the cinema/we will go to the cinema) and others ( the film will have started). As can be judged from the given context, Future Perfect Tense serves to indicate the antecedence in the future, this is a kind of "past in the future." Well, now about everything in order.

Affirmative sentence

In order to understand the principle of the formation of sentences with a predicate in the future perfect tense, it is enough to know the features of the formation of times and, since this form combines elements of these two tense forms: auxiliary verb will and perfect infinitive (Infinitive Perfect) - haveV 3(where V 3 is the third form of the semantic verb or, in other words, is the past participle).

will haveV 3

Sarahleaves always for school at 7.30 in the morning, so she won't be at home at 7.45 a.m. She'll have gone to school.	Sarah always leaves for school at 7:30 in the morning, so she won't be home at 7:45. She will go to school.
Next year Paul and Jessica will have been married* for 40 years.*	Next year will40 years since Paul and Jessica have been married.
Ann usually has lunch at 12.30. It takes her about half an hour. So, at 1.15 she'll have* already finished her lunch.*	Ann usually has lunch at 12:30. It takes her about half an hour. Therefore, at 1.15 she will already finish her lunch.
I'm packing my suitcases for the journey. The taxi will come in two hours. By the time the taxi arrives I'll have packed* my suitcases.*	I am packing my travel bags. The taxi will arrive in two hours. By the time the taxi arrives, I will have packed my bags.

Negation

To form a negative sentence with a predicate in the Future Perfect, you need to add the negative particle not to the auxiliary verb will. This will give, as a result of merging and reducing words, the construction:

won't have V 3

Questions

Different types of questions in the future perfect tense are formed, as in other temporary forms, at the expense of the base of the general question. General question, which is characterized by the absence of a question word and the need to answer Yes / No, is formed by setting the verb will before the subject.

Will + S + have V 3 …?	*Will* John have repaired* his car by the time Jane returns from her work? -Yes, he will.*	Will John have his car fixed by the time Jane gets home from work?- Yes.
Will + S + have V 3 …?	*Will* you have had* your breakfast by 8 o'clock? -No, I won't.*	Will you have breakfast by 8 o'clock already? - Not.

Special question is distinguished by the presence of an interrogative word or an interrogative construction at the very beginning of the sentence, for example:

Alternative question, containing union or/or, placed between two or more select objects, is constructed identically to the structure of a general question, for example:

Question to the subject as a kind of special question, it is distinguished by the apparent absence of the subject itself in the structure of the question, because the subject here is expressed by an interrogative word Who (who)/What (what) , for example:

As can be seen from the last example, What can act not only in the meaning of "what", but also in the meaning of "what" in combination with a noun or a phrase containing a noun. Such a question will also belong to the group of questions to the subject.

Separated question, habitually helping to doubt the content of a certain sentence, consists of an auxiliary verb in the form won't And subject represented by a personal pronoun if the base sentence does not contain a negation, for example:

and an auxiliary verb in the affirmative form will, followed by a subject expressed by a pronoun, if the base sentence contains a negation, for example:

Use

An action that will finally be completed by some point in time in the future, or before another action in the future begins, is the only scope of the Future Perfect. Often such a restriction of one action in the future by another later action is indicated by the preposition by (before, to), by the time (by the time), before (before) , for example:

The future perfect is, to some extent, opposed to the future continuous (Future Continuous), which can be seen in the example of the following table:

Future Perfect (will have V 3)	Future Continuous (will be Ving)
action in the future will be completed by a certain moment	action in the future continues at a certain moment
Phone me after 8 o'clock. I'll have finished* dinner by then.*	Don't phone me between 7 and 8 p.m. I'll be having* dinner then.*
Call me after 8 o'clock. By then I will have finished my dinner.	Don't call me between 7 and 8 pm. Then I will have dinner.

The future perfect tense is not very actively and diversely represented in sentences of English speech, but it is quite simple in formation and use.