TENSE TUESDAY: FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
14 / 04 / 2015
TENSE TUESDAY: FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS: meaning and examples
Welcome to The Daily Vitamin! For Tense Tuesday, we are looking at the FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
The form for the FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS is WILL HAVE BEEN ING or BE GOING TO HAVE BEEN ING.
We use this verb tense when we want to show a relationship between a future point in time and another continuing future action.
Example 1: In October, we will have been living in our apartment for 20 years.
Example 2: This summer, I will have been working for this company for a year.
Example 3: By the time you wake up, she is going to have been working for two hours.
Remember that we cannot use the Continuous Tenses with Non-Action verbs. In these situations, we use the FUTURE PERFECT instead of the FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
Example 4 (incorrect): By the end of the year, Iwill have been having my car for two years.
Example 5 (correct): By the end of the year, I will have had my car for two years.
To learn more about NON-ACTION VERBS, click on the link below.
http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/nonaction_verbs.html
To learn more about the FUTURE PERFECT, click on the link below.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
That's all for today. Thanks for reading!
The form for the FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS is WILL HAVE BEEN ING or BE GOING TO HAVE BEEN ING.
We use this verb tense when we want to show a relationship between a future point in time and another continuing future action.
Example 1: In October, we will have been living in our apartment for 20 years.
Example 2: This summer, I will have been working for this company for a year.
Example 3: By the time you wake up, she is going to have been working for two hours.
Remember that we cannot use the Continuous Tenses with Non-Action verbs. In these situations, we use the FUTURE PERFECT instead of the FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS.
Example 4 (incorrect): By the end of the year, I
Example 5 (correct): By the end of the year, I will have had my car for two years.
To learn more about NON-ACTION VERBS, click on the link below.
http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/nonaction_verbs.html
To learn more about the FUTURE PERFECT, click on the link below.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futureperfect.html
That's all for today. Thanks for reading!
