2015-09-07
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Future Perfect
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Study the table below, then grammar references and time expressions.
| Simple Tense (простий час) | Continuous (тривалий) | Perfect (здійснений) | Perfect-Continuous | |
| Present | + I often watch TV. ? Do you like it? - I don’t like it. | +He is watching a film now. ? Is Ann watching it at present? - She is not watching TV. | + I have just watched a film. ? Have you ever seen it? - I haven’t seen it yet. | + I have been watching TV for an hour. ? Have you been watching for long? - I haven’t been doing it. |
| Past | +I watched TV last night. ? Did you like it? - I didn’t like. | + I was watching TV at 2 o’clock yesterday. ? Were you watching a comedy? - I wasn’t watching it. | + I had watched TV by 2 o’clock yesterday. ? Had Ann watched it before I came? - She hadn’t done it. | + I had been watching TV for an hour by that time. ? Had Ann been watching TV for long before I came? - She hadn’t been doing it. |
| Future | + I will help you. ? Will you help me later? - I won’t do it. | +I will be watching TV at 2 o’clock tomorrow. ? Will you be watching a film? - I won’t be watching it. | +I’ll have watched TV by 2 o’clock tomorrow. ? Will you have watched a film before I come? - I won’t have watched it. | +I’ll have been watching TV for an hour by the time you come. ? Will you have been watching a film for long before I come? - I won’t have been watching it for long. |
Revision: Study the situations when the future perfect tense is used.
- An action will be finished in the future before / by a stated future time.
I will have written the article before you come.
I will have done this work by Friday.
She will have delivered all the newspapers by 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.
They will have immigrated to Canada by Christmas.
He won’t have arrived until tonight (until / till are used in negative sentences.)
She won’t have finished the report until 5 o’clock.
Compare the situations used in past perfect and future perfect:
- When he came home, Mary had already watched the film on TV.
- When he comes home, Mary will have watched the film on TV.
