FUTURE PERFECT

What will you have learnt by the end of this lesson?

Meaning and use: We use this tense to talk about a completed action before a specific time in the future.
This time next year, I’ll have finished my course.
By the time you get back, we’ll have had dinner.
On their next wedding anniversary, they’ll have been married 50 years.
We’re still on time: the film won’t have started yet.
If they’re following their schedule, they will have arrived yesterday.
The future perfect is often used with a “by” or “in” time phrase.
By 2020 this city will have doubled in size.
In June, I’ll have been unemployed for three years.
Used in this way, by means up to a stated time. Other by time phrases are: by the summer, by the end of the week, by this time next
week/month/year. The expressions … from now or in… time can be used instead of in.
Form:
FUTURE PERFECT POSITIVE FUTURE PERFECT NEGATIVE
SUBJECT + WILL + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE SUBJECT + WON’T + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE
We’ll have sold the house by Christmas, I’m sure. Rahul won’t have got up yet. It’s too early.
FUTURE PERFECT QUESTIONS
YES / NO QUESTIONS WILL/WON’T + SUBJECT + HAVE + P. PARTICIPLE
Will you have read all the reports by the end of the day?
WH- QUESTIONS WH- + WILL/WON’T + SUBJECT + HAVE + P. PARTICIPLE?
How much money will we have made by the end of the year?

NB. Other modals

It’s possible to use other modal auxiliaries instead of will in the future perfect. Different modals show how certain the speaker is about the assumption
he or she is making. Remember that the assumption is made on the information the speaker has at the moment of speaking.
Compare:
By this time next year I’ll have passed my driving test. Quite sure
By this time next year I should have passed my driving test. Reasonably sure
By this time next year I may have passed my driving test. Not so sure
By this time next year I might have passed my driving test. Not so sure
Take note: shall / shan’t
Sometimes, and in more formal situations or in writing, we use shall /shan’t instead of will / won’t with I and we in future perfect sentences.
We shall have visited all the museums by the time we leave Paris.
I shan’t have done all my accounts by the end of the month. I’m too busy.
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John, will you have finished that report by four o’clock?
Sorry boss, I won’t have finished it by 4 o’clock but I will have finished it by the next day. Is that OK?
When do you think you will have finished the painting?
I’ll have finished it in June.
 FUTURE PERFECT QUIZ
CHOOSE THE BEST OPTION

1. I ________ by then. c) be forgetting

6. Will you ________ the contracts by Thursday?
a) will be leave a) have mailed
b) will have left b) mailing
c) will leaving c) to have mailed
2. Will you ________ by 8am? 7. The boss ________ by the time the orders come in.
a) have arrived a) will leave
b) be arrive b) will be left
c) have arriving c) will have left
3. You ________ the bill by the time the item arrives. 8. Where ________ gone?
a) 'll have received a) will she have
b) will receiving b) is she has
c) 've received c) she have
4. Melissa and Mike will be exhausted. They ________ slept for 9. September works for us. Lisa will not ________ by then.
24 hours. a) graduating
a) will not b) have graduated
b) will not have c) be graduate
c) will not be 10. I will let you in. I ________ with the keys by the time you come
5. He will have ________ all about it by Monday. in.
a) forgetting a) will be arrival
b) forgotten b) will be arrived
c) will have arrived

READING

2. Will Mr. Jones have finished planting before it rains?

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3. How many hours will Mr. Jones and his horse have worked by the
time they finish tonight?

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Who is he? What will he have done? _______________________________________________________
What will have happened?

Mr. Jones is a farmer. He owns a big farm. He plants crops in his fields in the
spring. By the time he finishes planting this spring, he will have planted 10
acres of crops. He is going to have planted many crops.
1) 2) 3)
Mr. Jones must finish planting before it starts to rain. He is working hard. At
this rate, he will have finished planting before it rains. Mr. Jones and his
horse will have worked many long hours by the time they finish tonight.

Answer the following questions. Use the Future Perfect tense. 4) 5)

1. How many acres of crops will Mr. Jones have planted by the time
he finishes planting this spring?
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1) At 7:15, Billy._________________________________________
2) At 8:10, Julian. ________________________________________
3) At 4:00, Martha and Freddie. _____________________________
4) At 7:30, Anna. ________________________________________
5) At 9:00, Tom and Alison. _________________________________