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Future continuous and future perfect (continuous), WITH BOTH THE FUTURE…
Future continuous and future perfect (continuous)
FUTURE CONTINUOUS: I WILL BE DOING
We can use
the future continuous
to talk about:
Something that is predicted to start before a particular point of future time, and that may continue after this point (Often the result of a previous decision or arrangement):
When it goes into orbit, the spacecraft will be carrying 3o kilos of plutonium.
Anna will be helping us to organise the party.
A future activity that is part of the normal course of events or that is one of a repeated or regular series of events
Dr Lin will be giving the same talk in room 103 at ten next Thursday.
Will you be driving to work, as usual?
We can use either
the future continuous
or
the present continuous
when we talk about arranged activities or events in the future.
We will be leaving for Istanbul at 7:00 in the evening.
When the race starts later this afternoon the drivers will be hoping for drier weather than last year.
When we don't want to indicate
willingness, intention, invitation, etc.
, we prefer to use
the future continuous instead of will
. For example, if guests have stayed longer than you wanted, and you don't know when they are leaving, you might ask:
Will you be staying with us again tonight? (asking about their plans) rather than.
Will you stay with us again tonight? (They might think this is an invitation)
FUTURE PERFECT AND FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS: I WILL HAVE DONE AND I WILL HAVE BEEN DOING
We use the
future perfect
to say that something will be
ended, completed, or achieves
by a particular point in the future:
By the time you get home, I will have cleaned the house from top to bottom.
I'm sure his awful behaivor will soon have been forgotten.
We use the
future perfect continuous
to emphasize the
duration of an activity in progress at a particular point in the future.
Next year I will have been working for the company for 30 years.
The future continuous, future perfect and future perfect continuous
can also be used to say what we believe or imagine is happening around now.
We could ask to borrow Joe's car. He won't be using it today- he went to work by bike.
Most people will have forgotten the fire by now.
Tennis fans will have been queuing at Wimblendon all day to buy tickets.
We can use
the future perfect continuous
to say what we think was happening at a point in the past.
Motorist Vicky Hesketh will have been asking herself whether speed cameras are a good idea after she was fined $100 last week for driving at 33 mph in a 30 mph zone.
WITH BOTH THE FUTURE PERFECT AND THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS, WE USUALLY MENTION THE FUTURE TIME.