Future Perfect Continuous for intermediate learners

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This is one of the most advanced tenses in the English language. So, congratulation on reaching this level. Let's start to learn this tense.

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"Future Perfect Continuous" Tense in English Grammar

What Is Future Perfect Continuous?

The future perfect continuous tense and the future perfect tense are two tenses that are used to talk about the past in the future.

Structure

We form the future perfect continuous tense with the help of three auxiliary verbs and the '-ing' form of the main verb.

will + have + been + present participle

Aux #1	Aux #2	Aux #3	ing form of the main verb
will	have	been	waiting

If we invert the subject and will, we can make questions.
Negations are made with the help of 'not' placed between 'will' and 'have.'

I will have been running for an hour when you arrive. → Will you have been waiting for an hour when I arrive?

I have been waiting for an hour. → I will not have been waiting for an hour.

Use

We can use the future perfect continuous tense to talk about 'how long' an action continues up to another point in the future. The second point can be a time or another action.

In December, I will have been working for ten years.

He will have been waiting for more than an hour when she finally gets promotion.

Past Perfect

This tense is an advance tense and we use it to talk about the past in a lot of interesting ways, and you’ll see what they are. So are you ready? Let’s start.

Past Perfect Continuous

This tense is an advanced tense, but it’s not hard to learn. This tense will allow you to talk about things that happened in the past in a more interesting way.

Future Perfect

The future perfect tense is an advanced tense; it will allow you to speak about the future in a really interesting way that may not exist in your own language.

Future with 'Going to'

Anything after now is the future, and in English, we have many ways and tenses to talk about the future. Some are more basic and some are more advanced.

Past with 'Going to'

There are times that we are narrating a story and we want to talk about past plans that did not happen. In this case, we use past with going to.

Talking about the Present

When you talk, the verbs should agree with the orders of events. That's why We will learn how and when to use the present tense in this lesson.

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