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Future Perfect Tense

The Future Perfect tense is used for actions that will be completed between now and at an expected time.

In other words, it refers to activities planned to be completed before another later point, a deadline.

Example

At 5 pm, the football match will have ended, so we will not be part of the usual traffic jam.

Exception: The future perfect tense and simple future tense can be used interchangeably.

Future perfect tense formula

How to use the future perfect tense

You use the future perfect tense to describe actions that will happen at a specific time in the future.

This means actions that are scheduled for a defined time. You can use the prepositions before or by the time to emphasize which event will happen first.

Example

By 10 pm, I return home; baby Dulip will have slept.

The baseball game will have ended before you arrive. Please, do not come.

How to make negative future perfect tense sentences

Negative sentences require the auxiliary not or the contraction won’t add with will and have.

How to ask future perfect questions.

You can use the following sentence structure to ask questions in the future perfect tense.

Will +subject +have + past participle

Example

Paula, I will be home by 5:30 pm. Will you have cooked by then?

Will you have cleaned the bedroom in 1 hour?

Exercise

Will you …………. (ask) your Dad for permission to go to the birthday party?

Will she…………… (work) for 8 hours if it wasn’t the weekend?

They …………….(not/call) two weeks ago, if they knew they will see you today.

We …………(not/use) our money at the mall for shopping even before our salary paydays.

Peter ………….. (to be) a graduate by the time I return for Military Service.

My aunt ………… (to have) come back for lunch by the time we reach home.

The president ……….. (to say) the yearly reports before the end of his speech.

Self-practice exercise

Use the verbs below to make sentences.

Do

Get

Take

Go

See

Come

Travel

Study

Make

Decide

For more future tense exercises, check the following links

Future Simple Tense

Future Progressive Tense

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I am a TEFL certified English Tutor with over 7 years of teaching experience offline and online. I am also an enthusiastic Refugee Rights Researcher with Master degrees in International Law. Additionally, I sing gospel music and write Christian poems. My life is based on Christianity and I am devoted to glorify God via my Biblical inspirational writings.

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