The Future Perfect tense is used to talk about an event or action that will be finished before a certain event or time in future:
The Future Perfect tense indicates actions that are complete, or finished. These actions have not yet occurred but will occur and be finished in the future.
Here’s an illustration of what the Future Perfect means.
The Future Perfect tense is only for actions that will be completed before a specified point in the future. In other words, the action you’re talking about must have a deadline. This deadline may be expressed either as a point in time or another action.
To make the Future Perfect, use:
will have + the Past Participle
Note: For regular verbs, this is the “-ed” form of the verb. For the list of Past Participle forms of irregular verbs see the article about irregular verbs. |
Singular | Plural |
I will have (’ll have) finished You’ll have finished He/she/it ’ll have finished | We’ll have finished You’ll have finished They’ll have finished |
To make a negative form of Future Perfect, just insert ‘not‘ between ‘will’ and ‘have’ (you can also use ‘won’t’).
To ask a question in Future Perfect, just swap ‘will’ and the subject of the sentence:
will + [subject] + have + the Past Participle
Check out this video from Learn English on Skype containing a simple explanation of Future Perfect:
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