How to use the future perfect continuous tense - English In A Minute
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Hi, I'm Tom and today I'm going to show you
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how to use the future perfect continuous.
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When we use the future perfect continuous,
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we imagine ourselves at a point in the future
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and we then talk about a continuing action
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which leads to this point.
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Let's practise.
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At the start of the next scene,
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I will have been eating noodles for five minutes.
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See?
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It's nearly finished!
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We make this tense using
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subject + will have been + (verb)ing.
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For example:
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At lunchtime, I will have been working for four hours.
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And we can also use 'won't'
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to make the tense negative.
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