Future Perfect-Continuous

Study the table above, then grammar references and time expressions.

Revision: Study the situations when the future perfect-continuous tense is used.

- We emphasize the duration of an action up to a certain time in the future.

By 2015, he will have been working for a building company for 20 years.

I will have been learning French for six months by the end of the year.

By the time they reach New York, they will have been travelling for two days.

By his sixtieth birthday he will have been teaching for 35 years.

How long will you have been starring in films by the time you are forty?

Compare the situations used in past perfect-continuous and future perfect-continuous:

- They had been looking for a house for a year before / by last April.

- They will have been looking for a house for a year before / by next April.

Important! As there are different tenses for present, past and future, TIME EXPRESSIONS help to differentiate the tenses. Learn and use them in the right place.

Practice –Grammar in use