The Future Perfect Tense

By: M. Abdessalami

Affirmative

Form

         We will have toured the world by the year 2018.

Subject
shall / will have

+

verb in the past participle (V3)
  
deadline
We will have toured the world by the year 2018

         They will have eaten everything by the time you return.

Subject
shall / will have

+

verb in the past participle (V3)
  
deadline
They will have eaten everything by the time you return.

Negative

Form

will + not + haveverb in the past participle (V3)
Example
  • Impossible! She won't have finished by the time you come back from school.

    Interrogative

    Form

    will + subj.+ haveverb in the past participle (V3)
    Example
  • Will you have sold the whole merchandise by the end of the month?!

    Use

    Remember

    Examples

             You will wake up at 04:00 pm. At 03:45 pm I will arrive home.
    So, I will arrive home before you wake up,
    => By the time you wake up, I will have arrived home.    =>    Learn More

             I start to read a novel every month.
    So, By the end of the year, I shall have read 12 novels.

    • Before you wake up, I will have done a lot of work.
    • By the end of the month, my wife will have spent $300.000.
    • She will have left forever by the time you make up your mind.
    • By next July all the students will have had their results.



    Practice

    1. Don't be late. I (leave) for school by 7:30.    
    2. They (do) their homework by the time you come back from the cinema.    
    3. She (tour) the world by the end of the year.    
    4. The tailor (not/finish) the dress before the deadline.    
    5. We (complete) our task by the end of the month.    

    Quiz

    Write the (verb) in its correct tense in the square on the right then click   the (verb) for correction

    1. Sorry, she (leave)  for the airport by the time you return.
    2. By next June we (study)  English for 3 years.
    3. Before you wake up, she (do)  the whole work.
    4. By the year 2017 my mother (be)  dead for 14 years.
    5. In 2016 he (have)  his degree for seven years.
    6. By the end of the month, she (sell)  all her merchandise.
    7. By this time next week, Ali (reach)  the Pacific Coast.
    8. Before the doctor sees her again, she (lose)  some weight.
    9. You (understand)  alot about this tense when you finish this quiz.
    10. I hope, when you've finished this quiz, you (not/make)  many mistakes.

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