Future Perfect Tense (will + have + v3):
The Future Perfect Tense is a verb form used to describe an event that is expected or planned to happen before a time of reference in the future. It refers to a completed action in the future. When we use this tense, we are projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed sometime later than now. The Future Perfect Tense is used to discuss actions that will be completed before a certain time.
Future Perfect Tense Formed:
- Subject + will have + past participle form of the verb (affirmative)
- I will have completed the work by evening.
- Subject + will not have + past participle form of the verb (negative)
- I will not have completed the work by evening.
- Will + subject + have + past participate form of verb (Interrogative)
- Will you have completed the work by evening?
Time Expression or Indicators:
by this time tomorrow, by this evening, by 5 pm today, by the end of August, by the end of this month/year, by the end of 2024/2025 etc.
Affirmative forms:
- I will have taught all the lessons by the end of next week.
- We will have completed 3rd semester by the 14th of August.
- My brother will have got a job by the end of 2025.
- Mother will have coocked dinner by 8:30pm today.
- The baby will have slept by 2pm today.
- The students will have completed college by the end ot this month.
- The stock will have arrived by Friday.
- By the time you come I will have left.
- We will have done the project by next week.
- By the end of holidays, the children will have forgottem all the lessons.
- By the end ot this course, I will have become fluent in English.
- By next month, I will have read all the novels of this writer.
- By the end of this century, lifestyle of people will have changed.
- My children will have grown up into adults by the end of this decade.
Negative forms:
- She will not have cooked dinner by 7 pm.
- It will not have stopped raining by evening.
- He will not have reached home by 6 pm
- The customer will not have received the product.
- The parcel will not have arrived by tomorrow.
- They will not have announced the results by next week.
- He will not have got a job.
- They will not have selected him for the job.
- The plane will not have landed by 7 pm.
- We will not have bought a house by next year.
Interrogative Forms:
- Will you have taken a shower by 9 am?
- Will they have gone to school by 7 am?
- Will the Prime Minister have arrived by tomorrow?
- Will they have taken action against the miscreants?
- Will you have got a call by evening?
- Will the judge have given the verdict by tomorrow?
- Will he have returned from office?
- Will you have received the courier by tomorrow?
- Will he have got married by next month?
- Will you have eaten dinner by 8 pm?
- Yes, I will have taken a shower by 9 am.
- Yes, the children will have gone to school by 7 am.
- Yes, the Prime Minister will have arrived by tomorrow.
- Yes, They will have taken action against the miscreants.
- Yes, you will have got a call by tomorrow.
- Yes, the judge will have given the verdict by tomorrow.
- Yes, he will have returned from office.
- Yes, you will have received the courier by tomorrow.
- Yes, he will have got married by next month.
- Yes, we will have eaten dinner by 8 pm.