Universitatea din București

Facultatea de Psihologie și Științele Educației

Pedagogia Învățământului Primar și Preșcolar (filiala Buzău)

Referat
Future Perfect

Prof. Coord. Georgescu Diana

Studenți:
Brezeanu Ioana-Luminița
Crăciun Andreea-Denisa
Moise Ionuț
Pătru Alina-Daniela

Decembrie 2020
 Future Perfect
The future perfect is a verb tense used for actions that will be completed
before some other point in the future.
We use the Future Perfect tense to talk about actions that will be finished
before some point in the future. We also use this tense to express situations that
will last for a specified period of time at a definite moment in the future. The last
use is to express certainty that an action was completed. Generally we can say that
the Future Perfect relates to the past in the future.
Subject + WILL HAVE + past participle of the main verb
Quick examples:

● I will have graduated from university by May.

● Patrick will have lived in Hong Kong for 20 years by the next month.
● The train will have left by now.
● She will have been pregnant for six months tomorrow.

Use 1: Completion before a Specified Point in the Future

The first use of this tense is to talk about future actions that will be finished before
some specified point in the future:

● The football player will have signed the contract by the beginning of July.
● Before they come, we will have cleaned up the house.
● John will have eaten the whole cake, by the time the birthday party starts!

Use 2: Duration in the Future

Another use of this tense is to talk about actions will last after a given point in the
future:

● I will have been in Denver for exactly forty years by 2012.

● Jane will have worked as a doctor for fifteen years by the end of this month.
● By the next year, I will have known Monica for 30 years.

Use 3: Certainty about the Near Past

The last use is to express conviction (confidence, belief) that something happened
in the near past:

● The train will have left by now. We have to look for another way to get
there. (I'm sure the train has left.)
● The guests will have arrived at the hotel by now. (I'm sure the guests have
arrived at the hotel.)
● The plane will have taken off by now, so don’t rush to the airport. (I’m sure
the plane has taken off.)

Good to know:

Building the Future Perfect sentences we often use the common time expressions
such as: 

● by
● by the time
● before
● by tomorrow/7 o'clock/next month
● until/till

When to Use the Future Perfect Tense

Sometimes, you can use the future perfect tense and the simple future tense
interchangeably. In these two sentences, there is no real difference in meaning
because the word before makes the sequence of events clear:
Linda will leave before you get there. Linda will have left before you get there.

But without prepositions such as before or by the time that make the

sequence of events clear, you need to use the future perfect to show what happened
first.
At eight o’clock Linda will leave. (This means that Linda will wait until 8
o’clock to leave.) At eight o’clock Linda will have left. (This means Linda will
leave before 8 o’clock.)
 When Not to Use the Future Perfect Tense
The future perfect tense is only for actions that will be complete before a specified
point in the future. In other words, the action you’re talking about must have a
deadline. If you don’t mention a deadline, use the simple future tense instead of the
future perfect tense.
Correct : Linda will leave.

Incorrect : Linda will have left.

The deadline can be very specific (eight o’clock) or it can be vague (next week). It
can even depend on when something else happens (after the parade ends). It just
has to be some time in the future.

How to make the Future Perfect Negative

Making a negative future perfect construction is easy! Just

insert not between will and have.
We will not have eaten breakfast before we get to the airport tomorrow morning.
They will not have finished decorating the float before the parade.

You can also use the contraction won’t in the place of will not. They won’t
have finished decorating the float before the parade.

How to Ask a Question

The formula for asking a question in the future perfect tense is will + [subject] +
have + [past participle]:
Will you have eaten lunch already when we arrive? Will they have
finished decorating the float before the parade?
 Common Regular Verbs in the Future Perfect Tense

Common Irregular Verbs in the Future Perfect Tense

*Be careful when using the verb “to be” in the future perfect tense. The
construction is easy to confuse with the future perfect continuous tense.
**The past participle of “to get” is gotten in American English. In British English,
the past participle is got. 
 FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

This is used similarly to the future perfect but can only be used with action verbs,
that is, verbs which can be in progress.
‘Will have been + gerund’
It is used for completed future facts.

Example:
You moved into your present house twenty years ago at Christmas.
It is almost Christmas now, twenty years later.

You say:
“We will have been living in this house for twenty years by Christmas”.
You arranged to meet your friend at 10 o’clock. It is now 11 o’clock.
You are very late. You say: By the time I get there, she’ll have been waiting for
over an hour.
THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS

The future continuous is used in three different ways.

To say that something will be in progress from a certain moment in the future.
To predict that something will be in progress at a certain moment in the future.
To predict that something will be in progress in this moment.

Example:
A. The captain on the aeroplane. “This is your captain speaking; the plane will be
landing in ten minutes time”. This means that it will begin to land progressively
starting from ten minutes from now.

B. In the department store. “Will customers please make their way to the cash desk
as the store will be closing in five minutes”. This means that in five minutes time,
the store will begin to close.

C. A letter from a friend. “Dear Jill, I have my flight ticket. I will be arriving in
Milan on Saturday. In this example, your friend Jill sees the future beginning from
Saturday. She sees the future starting from that moment. She can also say, “I’m
arriving on Saturday”, but this means that she sees the future from this moment and
not from Saturday.
A. “Don’t phone Paul between 7 and 8 pm tonight. He’ll be having dinner”. We
predict that this will be in progress between these two times.

B. By the year 2025, people will be marrying less than ever before. This is also a
future prediction. We predict this to be in progress at a certain point in the future.

C. By the time we arrive home, they’ll be sleeping. Again we predict this action to
be in progress at that future point when we arrive home; we have reason to believe
this.

A. “Don’t phone John now, he’ll be sleeping”. We predict this to be in progress

now.
Let’s compare the present continuous tense for this moment with the future
continuous tense for this moment.
“Don’t phone her now, she’s eating”. In this example we know for sure.
“Don’t phone her now, she’ll be eating”. In this example it is a prediction. We
believe this to be the case. Remember, we need to use action verbs with all of the
‘continuous’ tenses.

WILL VERSUS GOING TO

To be going to + infinitive and ‘will + infinitive’ have similar meanings when used
for prediction.

Example:
The weather forecast says that it is going to rain tomorrow.
The weather forecast says that it will rain tomorrow.
The two tenses have separate meanings but overlap when we speak about
prediction.
Manchester United is going to win.
Manchester United will win.
When we use verbs such as, think, hope, or expect, it is more common to use ‘will
+infinitive’.

Example:
I hope she’ll come.
We can also say: ‘I hope she’s going to come’.
Bibliografie:
1. https://www.englishtenses.com/tenses/future-perfect
2. https://www.grammarly.com/blog/future-perfect/
3. English Grammar Reference Book_ - Jacqueline Melvin
4. Oxford_guide_to_english_grammar