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Future continuous |
Future + continuous – what's that about? Let's have a look at this structure and see what it's about. |
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| A) Don't come round at 20:00 as I'll be watching football. / I'll be driving to Manchester at 16:30. |
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The future continuous is used to talk about an action that will be happening at a definite time in the future. |
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We form the structure as set out below: |
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| Subject |
will |
auxiliary verb - be |
verb+ing |
| I |
will |
be |
driving.......... |
| He |
will |
be |
watching.......... |
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Future perfect |
The future perfect – I think we can start to a pattern forming now. Here are some example sentences using this structure: |
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A) By this time next year I'll have graduated. / By the end of the season they'll have used 23 players. |
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The future perfect is used where we want to talk about an action as being in the past but from a point in the future. |
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To form the future perfect we need the following components which are underlined in the sentences above: |
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| Subject |
will |
auxiliary verb - have |
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| I |
will |
have |
graduated. |
| They |
will |
have |
used.......... |
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Future perfect continuous |
Another future – this time with perfect and continuous features. Let's look at some example sentences: |
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In September Fred will have been learning Mandarin for three months. / At four o'clock they'll have been running for 3 hours. |
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Here we have an action seen from a time in the future as starting in the past and still continuing. |
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To construct the future perfect continuous we need the following blocks (as underlined above): |
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| Subject |
will |
have |
been |
verb+ing |
| Fred |
will |
have |
been |
learning......... |
| They |
will |
have |
been |
running.......... |
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