Read the following sentences.

She will finish the job. When? By the end of this month.
We can combine these two.
She will have finished the job by the end of this month.

Note that we use the future perfect tense to say that somebody will have done something by a
certain time in the future.
The children will reach home. When? By the time their father returns from work.
The children will have reached home by the time their father returns from work.
Notes
When the main clause is in the future tense, we use a present tense in the subordinate clause to refer
to the future.
The patient will have died before they reach the hospital. (NOT The patient will have died before
they will reach the hospital.)

FORM USE EXAMPLE

An action that will be I will have finished
completed before a specific my homework by
will + have + past
time in the future. five o’clock.
participle
Time marker:
We often use by with the future perfect to mean at or before
There are lots of time phrases starting with by :

 By this afternoon

 By the time we get home

 By the end of the year

Activity 13
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in future perfect
tense. Exercise includes both regular and irregular verbs.
1 I ---- ---- ---- (to finish)  my work by the 1st of May.
2 He ---- ---- ---- (to translate) this article by tomorrow.
3 My daughter and I  ---- ---- ---- (to come) to New York by the 1st of August.
4 We ---- ---- ---- (to be) there for a week when my husband joins us.
5 They ---- ---- ---- (to arrive) to the stadium half an hour before the game begins.