Learn How to Use the Future Perfect Tense in English

The future perfect tense is a verb tense that is used to describe an event that will happen in the future before another event. It is made up of two parts: the future tense and the past participle form of the main verb. The future perfect tense can be used to show action that will happen before a certain time or to show a state of affairs that will exist before another time. In this lesson, we will discuss how to form the future perfect tense and provide some examples of how it can be used. 

Future Perfect Tense 

The Future Perfect tense is to describe an event that will happen before another event in the fortune. For example, “She will have completed her homework before you arrive.” To form the Future Perfect tense, we use the present tense of “to have” plus the past participle of the main verb.

Here are some more Future Perfect tense examples:

– Mahak will have finished her homework before you arrive.

– She will have gone to the store before we get there.

– They will have eaten lunch before we start our meeting.

– We will have arrived in London before the sunsets.

– Before he graduates from college, he will have been studying English for nine years.

Rules of  Future Perfect Tense

The Future Perfect tense is to describe an event that will happen before another event in the fortune. For example, “He will have completed his homework before you get home from work.” To form the Future Perfect tense, we use the following formula:

will + have + past participle

The Future Perfect tense is made up of two parts:

– The first part is the simple future tense (will).

– The second part is the verb ‘to have’ and the perfect form of the main verb (have + past participle).

The Future Perfect is to describe two future events. The first event is the one that will happen first, and the second event is the one that will happen after the first event.

For example, “You will have completed your homework before she gets home from work.” In this sentence, the first event will happen relatively initially (I finished my homework), and the second event is going to follow the first one (you will get home from work).

Future Perfect tense examples

Here are some more Future Perfect tense examples:

– By next week, he will have concluded his project.

– You will have sent out all of the invitations by Thursday.

– By this time next year, she will have graduated from college.

– They will have arrived in New York by noon.

– Rohit will have ended his book by the end of the month.

– Before she wakes up, you will have left for work.

– The parade will have ended as we get there.

– He will have made dinner before he gets home from work.

– We will have cleaned the entire house by tomorrow.

When to Use the Future Perfect Tense

The future perfect tense is to speak about an event or situation that will happen before a specific moment in the future. In other words, you can use the future perfect tense to discuss something which will be done before something else happens.

How to make the Future Perfect Negative in English

The Future Perfect tense in English is to describe an action that will be done before a specific time in the fortune. To make the Future Perfect tense negative, we add “not” after “will.”

For example:

Shikha will have finished her homework by six o’clock tonight.

I will not have finished my homework by six o’clock tonight.

The Future Perfect verb tense is also used to converse about hypothetical situations later. For example, if I said “If I won the lottery, I would have a million dollars,” then I would be using the Future Perfect tense to converse about a hypothetical situation.

The Future Perfect verb tense can also be used to describe how long something will have been happening by a specific span afterwards. For example, “By next year, you will have been teaching English for ten years.”

Conclusion

In order to use the future perfect tense effectively in your English language learning, you must understand how it is formed and when to use it. The best way to learn is by example, so we will provide a few examples of how this tense can be used. Once you have mastered the basics, you can begin using the future perfect tense in your own writing and conversations.