Basic English Grammar Course | Future Perfect Continuous Tense | Learn and Practice

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Hi, everybody.
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I’m Esther.
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Welcome to the last tense.
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If you haven't checked out my earlier videos on the tenses,
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please go check them out now.
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In this video, I will talk about the future perfect continuous tense.
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This tense can be used to describe an ongoing action
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or situation that will last for a specified period of time in the future.
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There's a lot to learn, so keep watching.
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The future perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an ongoing situation
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that will be in progress for a period of time at a specific point in time in the future.
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Let's take a look at some examples.
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The first sentence says,
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‘She will have been living in Ireland for 10 years at that point.’
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So no matter what the subject, in this case we have ‘she’,
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we follow with ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
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So, ‘She will have been living in Ireland …’
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Then this sentence has the duration.
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What period of time will this last? ‘for 10 years’
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And when?
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Remember, we need a point in time in the future.
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In this case, we just use a general expression, ‘at that point’.
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Here, it's not specific and that's okay.
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We'll see some specific examples in the next sentence.
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‘By midnight, he will have been sleeping for four hours.’
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Here, the specific time in the future comes at the beginning of the sentence.
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‘By midnight’ And, again, we see ‘will have been’ +
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verb 'ing'.
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‘By midnight, he will have been sleeping for four hours.’.
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Here we have ‘for four hours’.
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This shows the duration or how long this action will be in progress.
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So, again, ‘By midnight he will have been sleeping for four hours.’
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The last sentence says, ‘In June …’
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Here, again, we have the specific time in the future at the beginning of the sentence.
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‘In June, ‘we’ that's the subject.
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‘we'll have been studying …’ There's the ‘verb +ing’.
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‘… at this university for four years.’
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Here is the duration, ‘for four years’.
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Good job.
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And let's move on.
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Now, let's look at the negative form of the future perfect continuous tense.
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In the affirmative form, we say ‘subject’ + ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
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In the negative form, however, we say, ‘subject’ + ‘will not have been’
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and then ‘verb +ing’.
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Let's take a look at some examples.
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The first sentence here says,
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‘At that point, I will not have been living in Spain for 10 years.’
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And so you see it.
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‘I’ is the subject.
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‘… will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
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In this case, ‘living’.
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The next sentence says,
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‘He will not have been sleeping for four hours by midnight.’
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Again, we see the ‘subject’ + ‘will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’,
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‘sleeping’.
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The last sentence says,
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‘By then, we will not have been studying at this university for three years.’
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Again, we see the ‘subject’ + ‘we will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’
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here, ‘studying’.
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Let's move on.
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Now let's take a look at how to form questions in the future perfect continuous tense.
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Here, the sentence says,
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‘Sean will have been playing soccer for a year by December.’
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To turn this into a question, all we have to do is switch the order of the first two
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words.
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So instead of ‘Sean will’, I can say ‘Will Sean’.
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‘Will Sean have been playing soccer for a year by December?’
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You'll notice that the rest of the sentence stays the same.
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I can answer by saying, ‘Yes, he will have.’
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or ‘No, he will have not.’
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The next sentence says,
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‘They will have been working there for three months by that time.’
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Again, I changed the order of the first two words.
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To turn this into a question ‘They will’ becomes ‘Will they’.
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‘Will they have been working there for three months by that time?’
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Again, the rest of the sentence stays the same.
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I can answer by saying, ‘Yes, they will have.’
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or ‘No, they will have not.’
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Let's move on.
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Now let's take a look at how to form ‘WH” questions in the future perfect continuous
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tense.
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Take a look at the board.
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All of these questions begin with a ‘WH’ word.
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‘where’ ‘what’
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‘who’ and ‘how long’
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Take a look at the first question.
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‘Where will you have been walking?’
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To form a ‘WH’ question, we start with the ‘WH’ word, then ‘will’.
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After that, we add the subject, ‘you’, ‘they’, ‘she’ and ‘you’.
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After that, we add ‘have been’ + ‘verb +ing’.
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‘Where will you have been walking?’
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‘What will they have been playing?’
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‘Who will she have been talking to?’
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and ‘How long will you have been working …?’
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There's the ‘verb +ing’.
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‘ … there by the time you finish?’
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So let's go through one more time and I'll show you how to answer these questions.
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‘Where will you have been walking?’
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I can answer by saying, ‘I will have been walking in the park.’
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‘What will they have been playing?’
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‘They will have been playing video games.’
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‘Who will she have been talking to?’
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‘She will have been talking to her cousin.’
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And finally,
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‘How long will you have been working there by the time you finish?’
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‘By the time I finish, I will have been working there for five years.’
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Let's move on.
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Let's start a checkup for the future perfect continuous tense.
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Take a look at the board.
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The first sentence says,
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‘By 10 p.m., I _blank_ that game for three hours.’
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I’m looking to use the verb ‘play’.
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Remember, in this tense, we need to have ‘subject’ + ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
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So ‘By 10 p.m., I will have been playing …’
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Again, we need ‘verb +ing’.
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‘… I will have been playing that game for three hours.
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The next sentence says,
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‘When she gets here, he _blank_ dinner for an hour.’
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Try to use the verb ‘cook’.
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Again, no matter what the subject, it doesn't change.
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‘When she gets here, he will have been cooking …’
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‘When she gets here, he will have been cooking dinner for an hour.’
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Now, find the mistake in the next sentence.
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‘Steve and Jan will not have be waiting for a year when it arrives.’
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Here, we have a negative form, ‘they will not have’.
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Then we need ‘been’.
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‘They will not have been …’
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And then the ‘verb +ing’ is here so that's correct.
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‘Steve and Jan will not have been waiting for a year when it arrives.’
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The last sentence says,
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‘It will have been work for 10 years on January 15th.’
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So maybe here I’m talking about a computer or a TV.
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Maybe some kind of machine.
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‘it’ ‘It will have been …’
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I see the mistake here.
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We need ‘verb +ing’.
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‘It will have been working for 10 years on January 15th.
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Great job, everybody.
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Let's move on.
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Congratulations!
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You have learned all 12 main English tenses.
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It's now time to keep practicing them in your reading and your writing.
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I hope to see you in my next videos.
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Bye.
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