Future Perfect Continuous - usage, formation, examples.

This lesson is on the future perfect continuous tense

the future perfect continuous is also known as the future perfect progressive and it is one of the lesser used tenses in English however it can be tricky for learners to master and it is usually used with the time expression it is used to protect ourselves forward.

and then look back and it can be formed with Will or be going to interchangeably and we’ll see that in the examples past perfect continuous is used for describing the duration before something in the future and the cause of something in the future.

look at quickly the formation of this in a positive case subject plus will have been plus verb and i n g.

example I will have been eating ice cream as a negative subject plus won’t have been plus a verb and i n g we won’t have been eating ice cream and as a question Will plus subject plus have been plus verb and i n g will she have been eating ice cream and as a negative question wont plus subject plus have been plus verb and i n g won’t he have been eating ice cream with us some examples now for the duration before something in the future how long will he have been studying when he gets his pasty when the company closes I will have been working there for twenty years when you arrive for dinner I will have been cooking for five hours and in all of these cases we sort of imagine ourselves in the future looking back to see how long something has taken which hasn’t finished yet.

or the cause of something in the future I will be tired tomorrow because I will have been studying all night she will be exhausted because she will have been training so hard he will have been studying in England for five years his English will be perfect and so again we’re projecting ourselves a little bit forward and looking back as to the cause of some thing in the future both of which haven’t happened yet since what I mean when I said The future perfect continuous is little bit difficult.