FUTURE

PERFECT
TENSE
When to use Future
Perfect Tense:
The future perfect tense refers
to an action or state that will
finish sometime in the future before
some other event in the future.
The following sentence uses the
future perfect tense:
I will have cleaned my room before
my parents come home.
If we look closer at the name of this verb tense, it
actually tells us how we use it:
Future: The verb tense refers to an action or
state that will happen in the future.
Perfect: Generally speaking, perfect verb tenses
refer to completed actions/states. While this may
seem odd when referring to the future, the future
perfect tense is typically used to say that a likely
future event will be completed before another one
begins.
When do you use future perfect tense?
Typically, we use the future perfect tense to say that
an event was finished before a certain time or
before another event. This is how the future perfect
tense differs from simple future tense. Look at the
following two sentences and see if you can tell the
difference between their meanings:
Simple future tense: When the sun rises, we will
leave.
Future perfect tense: When the sun rises, we will
have left.
Can you see the difference? The
first sentence says that we will wait
until the sun rises and then leave at
that exact moment. The second
sentence says we will leave before
the sun rises at all.
This comparison shows the most common reason that we use
the future perfect tense: to indicate that one future event will
happen before another. You can see the future perfect tense
used for this reason in the following sentences.

I expect I will have finished my painting before the art collector

arrives.

According to Katie, she will have bought a dog house by the

time we bring the puppy home.

The workers will have finished all the repairs when we return

from our vacation.
When we use prepositions like by or before or the 
prepositional phrase by the time, we can often use
the future perfect tense and simple future tense
 interchangeably because it is clear which event is
happening before the other. The following pairs of
sentences have the exact same meanings:
Future perfect: I will have built the shed by
Saturday.
Simple future: I will build the shed by Saturday.
Future perfect: Ideally, Chris will have
cooked the turkey before his sister arrives.
Simple future: Ideally, Chris will cook the
turkey before his sister arrives.
Future perfect: By the time winter comes,
we will have stocked up on enough food.
Simple future: By the time winter comes,
we will stock up on enough food.
Keep in mind that we do not use the future
perfect tense if there is no stated deadline or if
we aren’t comparing future events. Instead,
we use the simple future tense. For example:
      Incorrect: I will have become a famous
musician someday.
      Correct: I will become a famous
musician someday.
Lastly, we only use the future perfect tense to refer to
actions or states that will be completely finished in the
future. If an action or state is not finished or is in progress,
we use the future continuous tense or future perfect
continuous tense. You can see the an example of this in
the following sentences:
Future perfect tense: By sunset, I will have worked on
my homework. (You will be done working by sunset.)
Future continuous tense: By sunset, I will be working on
my homework. (You will be in the middle of work by
sunset.)
How
 to form future perfect tense
To form the future perfect tense, we use the phrase will

have followed by the past participle of the verb. For regular verbs,
the past participle is a form of the verb that ends in -ed or -d. For
example, the past participle of walk is walked. Some verbs also
have a -t variant in the past participle where the verb ends in –
t rather than -ed. For example, the past participle
of dream is dreamt and the past participle of spill is spilt.
However,
 there are many irregular verbs whose past participle doesn’t
follow this rule. You will need to learn these verbs or search for them in a
dictionary. Some examples of irregular verbs include:
•got → gotten
•speak → spoken
•catch → caught
•choose → chosen
•learn → learnt
•hear → heard
The
 following sentences include examples of regular and irregular verbs
in the future perfect tense:
•She will have jogged two miles before reaching the post office.
•Hopefully, I will have won the championship by the next time we speak.
•I am pretty sure this meat will have spoiled by the time the cookout
starts.
•The lazy lions will have slept for hours when the zookeepers come to
feed them.
How
 to make future perfect tense negative
It is a piece of cake to make the future perfect tense negative. All you

need to do is put the word not between the words will and have:

•I will not have painted the whole garage by the time you get here.

•Basedon past experience, my cat will not have enjoyed her time at the

vet when I pick her up.
You
 can also use the contraction won’t (not “willn’t”):
•At his current pace, Ryan will not have completed all
the exercises by the time the personal trainer returns.
•At his current pace, Ryan won’t have completed all the
exercises by the time the personal trainer returns.
•Based on the rate we are going, we won’t have used
up all the laundry detergent before our next shopping
trip.

•Based on the rate we are going, we will not have used

up all the laundry detergent before our next shopping
trip.