Language Use: Futures

Future Continuous Future Perfect

What will you be doing this
time tomorrow?
I will be studying
English class

Future continuous Future perfect

What time will you be going
to bed tomorrow?
I will be going to bed
tomorrow at midnight.

Future continuous Future perfect

Will you have graduated by
2025?
Yes, I will.

Future continuous Future perfect

The Future Continuous is a verb form that is
tipically used with ACTION verbs to say what will
be happining at the certain point in the future. As
always, continuous forms highlights the
DURATION of the action.
 FORM
Affirmative Interrogative Negative

I will be driving Will I be driving? I/you/he/she/

You will be driving Will you be driving? it/we/they
He will be driving Will he be driving? will not/won’t
She will be driving Will she be driving? be driving
It will be driving Will it be driving?
We will be driving Will we be driving?
You will be driving Will you be driving?
They will be driving Will they be driving?
 USE
1. For a continuous action in the future.
The Future Continuous is also used for planned actions,
as an alternative to the PRESENT CONTINUOUS

They are arriving tonight.

They will be arriving

tonight.
I am not using the car
today.

I won’t be using the car

today.
2. For an action that will be in progress at a specific
time in the future.

At nine o’clock
tomorrow I’ll
be flying to
Madrid!
3. To ask polite questions.

Will you be
using the
printer?
4. For making guesses about the future.

I’m sure the sun will be shining in California

next week. It’s always sunny there.
5. For making guesses about the present.

I won’t call my
sister since it’s
late. She will be
sleeping now.
The Future Perfect – I will have
done
 FORM
Affirmative Interrogative Negative

I will have finished Will I have finished?

You will have finished I/you/he/she/
Will you have finished?
He will have finished
it/we/they
Will he have finished?
will not/won’t
She will have finished Will she have finished?
have finished
It will have finished Will it have finished?
We will have finished Will we have finished?
You will have finished Will you have finished?
They will have finished Will they have finished?
The Future Perfect is used to say that something will
ALREADY
be COMPLETE by the certain time in the future. It is often used
with time expressions such as by five o’clock, by the time
you arrive, in two weeks’ time, by Friday etc.
 You will have learnt to speak Spanish fluently in
two years’ time.

You don’t need to come and help us make dinner. We

will have finished cooking by the time you arrive.

In two years’ time I will have become

rich!
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