FUTURE PERFECT TENSE

Future perfect tense is used to say that somebody will have done something by a
certain time in the future. For example:

 The children will reach home. When? By the time their father returns from work.

Now let’s combine these two sentences.

 The children will have reached home by the time their father returns from work.

Will- Future
Have reached- Present perfect

I. Combine the following pairs by changing them into the future perfect tense.

1. The children will eat all the cake. (before their mother comes.)

2. The fire will destroy the whole building. (before the firemen arrive)

3. We will pay back all the money we owe you. (before we leave this city)

4. He will leave. (before you reach his place)

II. Read the sentences and fill in the blanks using future perfect tense

1. Tom __________________________ (read) the novel by the end of this month.

2. I __________________________ (reach) home before he comes to meet me.

3. The mother ______________________________ (cook) the dinner before the children

arrive.

4. He _______________________________ (meet) Alice by 8 pm tonight.

5. I ______________________________ (take) my medicines by 9 pm tonight.

6. She ________________________________ (leave) the town by the end of this year.

7. The kids ______________________________ (fall) asleep by the time you get home.

8. I __________________________________ (reach) home by dinner time.

9. By this time tomorrow, he __________________________________ (sign) an

agreement.

10. He _______________________________________ (complete) his graduation till then.

11. The pilot ________________________________ an airplane 20000 ft above the

surface level. (fly)

12. Why _________ he___________________________ his bike at the speed of

135mph? (not drive)

13. She will ______________________ to Paris to meet her parents. (go)

14. I ________________________ to cut my hair into this kind of hairstyle. (decide)

15. They ______________________________ an award for the best dance

performance. (receive)

16. ____________ they ______________________________ from their tour of Goa by end of

the week? (return)

III. Choose the correct option from the given options

1. She __________ eight hours till early in the morning.

 will have slept

 have slept
 slept
2. When __________ your assignment?

 you will have completed

 will you have completed
 will you complete
3. They ___________ around the world before they come to Norway.

 will have travelled

 will travel
 will be traveling
4. By June, I ___________ my passport.

 will get
 will has gotten
 will have gotten
5. Tom __________ for 16 hours by the time he leaves the office.

 have worked
 will have worked
 will work

6. By Sunday, I __________ this novel.

 will finish
 will have finished

7. She _________ the cookies before we arrive.

 will have baked

 have baked

8. By the time the doctor arrives, the patient __________ medicine.

 will not take

 will not have taken

9. By December, I _________ my course.

 have completed
 will have completed

10. By this time next year, I __________ 10 years of my job.

 will complete
 will have completed