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Grammar reference

Tenses

Future Perfect and Future Continuous

Completed or in progress at a point in the future.

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Explanation

The future perfect (will have plus past participle) says an action will be complete before a future time. The future continuous (will be plus -ing) says it will be in progress at a future moment. Both are common with by and by the time.

Examples

  • By June we will have finished the course.
  • This time next year I will be living abroad.
  • They will have closed the office by seven.

Common mistakes

  • By June we will finish the course.

    By June we will have finished the course.

    By a future time takes the perfect form.

  • Will you have be working?

    Will you be working?

    The continuous uses be plus -ing.

  • By then she will already leave.

    By then she will already have left.

    Completion before a future point needs will have.

More Tenses

Past Perfect Continuous

Ongoing past action leading up to another past event.

Used To and Would for Past Habits

Past habits and states that are no longer true.

Choosing Tenses in a Narrative

Mixing past simple, past continuous and past perfect.

Present Simple

Facts, habits and timetables.

Present Continuous

Actions happening now or around now.