Tenses · CEFR C1 · Fluent
Future Perfect Continuous — English tenses
How long something will have been going on when a future moment arrives. Rare, and exact.
The shape
will have been + verb-ing
Say how long something will have been going on by a future date.
In Hindi
आगे किसी वक़्त तक कोई काम कितने समय से चल रहा होगा — यह बताने के लिए।
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The mistake to fix first
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
By June I will be working here for five years. | By June I will have been working here for five years. A length of time up to a future point takes will have been + -ing. |
Learn these first
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Questions people ask
- What is the future perfect continuous used for?
- How long something will have been going on when a future moment arrives. Rare, and exact. In practice: say how long something will have been going on by a future date.
- How do you form the future perfect continuous?
- will have been + verb-ing.
- What is the most common mistake with the future perfect continuous?
- Saying “By June I will be working here for five years.” instead of “By June I will have been working here for five years.”. A length of time up to a future point takes will have been + -ing.
Where future perfect continuous fits
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
Future Perfect Continuous is a CEFR C1 structure — the fluent band — and it belongs to tenses. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
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