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Future Perfect Future Perfect ProgressiveProgressive

Present

Past Future

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The future perfect progressive emphasizes The future perfect progressive emphasizes the the durationduration of an activity that will be of an activity that will be in in progress before another time or event in the progress before another time or event in the future.future.

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Example: I will go to bed at ten P.M. Ed will get home at midnight. At midnight I will be sleeping. I will have been sleepingwill have been sleeping for two hours by the time Ed gets home.

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Form:Form:Will +

have+

Been+

[-ing] form of the verb (Present Participle)

Example:Example:This is the longest flight I have ever taken. By the time we get to New Zealand, we will have been flyingwill have been flying for 13 hours.

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Sometimes the future

perfect and the future perfect progressive

have the same meaning.

The activity expressed by

either of these tenses may begin in the

past.

Sometimes the future

perfect and the future perfect progressive

have the same meaning.

The activity expressed by

either of these tenses may begin in the

past.

When Professor Jones retires next month, he will have taughtwill have taught for 45 years.

When Professor Jones retires next month, he will have been teachingwill have been teaching for 45 years.

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