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Future Perfect

Structure and Usage

 Future Perfect
Use the future perfect tense to express what will happened by a certain time in the future. The future perfect tense is often used to express achievements or work done by a future point in time.

This tense is often used with the following time expressions:

... by Monday, Tuesday, etc.
... by the time ...
... by five o'clock, two-thirty, etc.

Basic Construction

Positive

Subject + will + have + past participle + object(s) + time Expression

They will have finished the report by tomorrow afternoon.

Negative

Subject + will not (won't) + have + past participle + object(s) + time Expression

Mary won't have answered all the questions by the end of this hour.

Question

(Question Word) + will + subject + have + past participle + object(s) + time Expression

What will you have done by the end of this month?

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