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Understanding the Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The Future Perfect Continuous Tense is a way to talk about actions that will be happening over a period of time in the future. It shows that something will start in the future and continue up to a certain point.
Important Points
It talks about actions that will have been happening for a period of time in the future.
It uses the structure: will have been + verb-ing.
It often includes time expressions like 'for two hours', 'for three days', or 'by next year'.
Examples
By next year, she will have been studying for five years.
He will have been working here for ten years by the time he retires.
They will have been playing for two hours by the time we arrive.
To make a sentence in the Future Perfect Continuous Tense, you need to use 'will have been' followed by the verb with an -ing ending. This tells us that the action will be ongoing up to a certain time in the future.
Examples
By 8 PM, I will have been reading for three hours.
She will have been cooking for an hour by the time we get home.
We will have been living here for a year next month.
Important Points
Use 'by' to show the end time of the action.
Use 'for' to show the duration of the action.
Let's practice using this tense by thinking about things that will be happening in the future and how long they will have been happening by a certain time.
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