Future Perfect Tense

Uses of Future Perfect Tense

We use Future Perfect Tense to talk about actions that will be completed in some future time.

I shall have completed my homework by then.

By the end of this year, I will have worked here for three years.

Apart from ‘will’, we can use other modal verbs too to talk about the future in a less certain way.

By the time police get any clue, we will/may/should have crossed into Turkey.

Pattern: Subject + shall/will + have + $V_3$ + Object

Aanya will have completed her homework by then.
They will have completed their homework by then.

Pattern: Subject + shall/will + not + have + $V_3$ + Object

Aanya will not have completed her homework by then.
They will not have completed their homework by then.

We can write shall not and will not as shan’t and won’t too respectively.

Pattern 1: Shall/Will + Subject + have + $V_3$ + Object?

Will Aanya have completed her homework by then?

Pattern 2: Wh. family + will/shall + Subject + have + $V_3$ + Object?

When will Aanya have completed her homework?

Pattern 1: Shall/Will + Subject + not + have + $V_3$ + Object?

Will Aanya not have completed her homework by then?

Pattern 2: Wh. family + will/shall + Subject + not + have + $V_3$ + Object?

Why will Aanya not have completed her homework?

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Last updated on Oct 5, 2021