Structure of the Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The structure of the Future Perfect Continuous Tense for different types of sentences is listed below:
Affirmative:
Subject + Will / Shall + Have + Been + ing form of the verb + Object
Examples:
- I will have been cleaning the house for two hours when you come back.
- They shall have been playing full day.
- I will have been starting my own business for ten years.
- You shall have been taking a rest for two days.
- I shall have been playing the piano in the concert of my college.
Negative:
Subject + Will / Shall +Not + Have + Been + ing form of the verb + Object
Examples:
- Aradhana shall not have been going to the office since Tuesday.
- He will not have been working with his teammates.
- We shall not have been cleaning the garden for three days.
- They will not have been living here for whole year.
- We will not have been studying for the test tomorrow.
Interrogative:
Will / Shall + Subject + Have + Been + ing form of the verb + Object + ?
Examples:
- Will you have been exploring the world outside?
- Shall I have been sitting here since morning?
- Will he have been going to his new school?
- Shall they have been working here for twelve years?
- Will she have been coming to this garden since childhood?
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The Future Perfect Continuous Tense represents a tense that is employed to express activities or occurrences that will carry on as long as a future stage. It is utilized as well to explain or suggest acts that started in the past and will keep happening until a given stage in the future. Whenever we explain something in the future perfect continuous tense, we have been searching ahead in time and back at how long that activity lasted. Only action verbs can be employed in the future perfect continuous tense, not stative verbs.
Table of Content
- What is the Future Perfect Continuous Tense?
- Definition of the Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense Formula
- Structure of the Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Wh-questions
- Negative Interrogative
- Rules for Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Purpose of Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense Examples
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense Exercise