FUTURE PERFECT

The future perfect refer to a finished action in the future. We use this tense to
project ourselves in the future in an event that will be completed sometime later
than now.

When to use the future perfect

1- We use the future perfect to talk about events, one will start and continued
until another in some point in future time:

• When we arrive to Istanbul, we will have visited Turkey for the 5th time.
• She will have finished your project by this time next week.
• They will have arrived by 8:00.
• On January the 1st, I’ll have been in this job for 5 years.

2- We also use this tense when we talk about actions that will finish before an
unknown time in the future. We usually use the word “by”.

• By the time I’m sixty, I will have retired.

• Sometime before summer ends, we will be traveling to Germany.
• By 10 o’clock, I will have finish school.

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 How to use the future perfect

• To form the future perfect use the following:

Will have + Past participle.

For regular verbs the past participle is: -ed.

For irregular past participles: check irregular verbs table.

The positive forms of the future perfect.

By six pm tonight:

• I will have finished this book

• You will have studied the English tenses
• She will have cooked dinner
• He will have arrived
• We will have met Julie
• It will have stopped raining
• They will have left Japan

The negative forms of the future perfect.

I will not have finished this book

• You will not have studied the English tenses

• She will not have cooked dinner
• He will not have arrived
• We will not have met Julie
• It will not have stopped raining
• They will not have left Japan

The question forms of the future perfect.

'Yes / no' questions:

By next year,

• will I have finished writing this book?

• will you have studied all the English verb tenses?
• will she have graduated?
• will he have got married?
• will it have got colder?

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• will we have met your boyfriend?
• will they have left their jobs?

'Wh' questions:

• When will I have finished writing this book?

• Why will you have studied all the English verb tenses by tomorrow?
• When will she have been here three weeks?
• Why will he have got married before June?
• Why will it have got colder by May?
• How will we have met your boyfriend by tonight?
• When will they have left their jobs?

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