Future Perfect Continuous
- When you can use Future Perfect Continuous
- Time markers in Future Perfect Continuous
- How to build Future Perfect Continuous
- Spelling of the verbs with ending -ing
When you can use Future Perfect Continuous
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You use Future Perfect Continuous to emphasize the duration of action up to a specific time in the future.
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We will have been living here for 10 years by 2024.
/Emphasis on duration — for 10 years
up to specific time in future — by 2024/ -
I won’t have been going on vacation for two years by the next month.
/Emphasis on duration — for two years
up to specific time in future — by the next month/ -
By this time tomorrow, she will have been driving to Florida for an hour.
/Emphasis on duration — for an hour
up to specific time in future — by this time tomorrow/
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We will have been living here for 10 years by 2024.
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You use Future Perfect Continuous to emphasize the duration of action before another action takes place.
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He will have been fixing his car for a couple of hours by the time she comes home.
/Emphasis on duration — for a couple of hours
another action takes place — by the time she comes home/ -
Children will have been waiting for their dad for an hour by the time he picks them up from school.
/Emphasis on duration — for an hour
another action takes place — by the time he picks them up from school/
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He will have been fixing his car for a couple of hours by the time she comes home.
Time markers in Future Perfect Continuous
- by (specific time) ... for (specific time)
How to build Future Perfect Continuous
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Subject + will + have been + V + ing
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Subject + won’t + have been + V + ing
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Will + subject + have been + V + ing
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Wh-?
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Wh + will + subject + have been + V + ing
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