The use of future perfect continuous tense – English Grammar Tenses

EFL/ESL Grammar: English tenses

The use of future perfect continuous tense in English 

The future perfect continuous or (progressive) is a tense that can be used to describe actions that will start in the future and continue before a certain point of time (in the future).

The grammatical structure of the future perfect continuous tense

The future perfect continuous is used with these time expressions:

• This time next week/Wednesday, year, etc.
• By 2020/2050/ five O’clock/this time evening, etc.
• Before Monday/June/2020, etc.
• In ten years time, in two months time, etc.

Examples:

• The student will have been studying before evening.
• All of my students will have been doing their projects before June.
• Officials in the government will have been working hard before 2022.

Forms of the future perfect continuous tense

Examples of future perfect continuous 

• I will have been waiting here for five hours by seven o’clock.
• By 2055, I will have been living in Florida for ten years.
• When I finish this module, I will have been learning English for two weeks.
• Next year, I will have been working here for five years.
• Will they have been studying English before six o’clock?

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