Future Perfect & Progressive

Future Progressive

Future Progressive

•Signifies something that will be in progress at a particular time in the future

•Next semester, I will be studying at Hogwarts.

•Usually mention the future time.

•At 8 p.m., I will be watching the nightly news.

Future Progressive

•At midnight next New Year’s Eve, I will be standing on a tower.

•This time next week, I will be taking the exam.

•Tonight, I will be studying at the library.

Future Progressive

Will be + Ving

•Affirmative sentence

•I will be studying in the library at 6 p.m.

•Interrogative sentence

•Will Jane be studying with you?

•Negative sentence

•No, Jane will not be studying with me.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect

•Signifies something that will finish at a particular time in the future

•In the next four years, I will have graduated from Hogwarts.

•‘BY’ is often used

•By the time you arrive, the party will have ended.

•*use present tense in time clause*

Future Perfect

•Next Monday, I will have studied here for a year.

•The car is running low on fuel. By the time we reach a tollway, we will have run out of gasoline.

•By the end of the century, oil will have depleted.

Future Perfect

Will have + past participle

•Affirmative sentence

•I will have done with my work by 6 p.m.

•Interrogative sentence

•Will Jane have done with her work too?

•Negative sentence

•No, Jane will not have done by 6 p.m .

Difference in time

•Next semester, I will be studying at Hogwarts.

•In the next four years, I will have graduated from Hogwarts.

I will be studying

Now

I will have graduatedNext semester

Next 4 years

Future Perfect VS. Simple

•When mom gets home, I will clean the house.

•The sentence doesn’t say when it will be done. It merely expresses intention.

•When mom gets home, I will have cleaned the house.

•The house will be spotless when mom arrives.