Lumiere English Academy; How to use Verbs and their Tenses Correctly (7) - The Future Perfect Tense

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A Basic Grammar

THE FUTURE PERFECT TENSE

I shall have loved

You're not going to use that in normal speech very often, unless you say: "Next month I shall have been at university for three years."

And, of course, the week before your silver wedding anniversary you'll be able to say to your spouse: "I shall have served you faithfully as your spouse for twenty-five years next week."

Combining the future "shall/will" with the present of "have" and the past participle of love gives you the future perfect tense.
We use;
I shall
We shall
The word we use with you singular and plural is will
They will
He, she and it will
It is also permitted to use 'will' with I and we

EXERCISE

1. By this time next year I (pay) .................. off my car (shall have paid off)

2. When Mother comes home from town, Dad (to have/cook) ............ the meal 
(will have cooked)

3. By the time you read this, I (leave) .............. for Cape Town (shall have left)

4. In two hours from now, the bank (close) .................. (will have closed)

5. They (forget)  ....................... all about us after so many years (will have forgotten)

6. Unless the doctor comes soon, the patient (worsen) ....... by the time he does arrive 
(will have worsened)

7. You (finish) ................ reading the book by Monday (will have finished)

8. In an hour from now the church service (start)  ................. (will have started)

9. ..... she (begin) ..................... reading that book yet, do you think? 

(Will she have begun)

10.The nurse (take)  ...................... his temperature by now, surely? (will have taken)

11. At our silver wedding our children (grow) ..................... up (will have grown)

12. If I come back tomorrow, (finish) .......... you .............. mending my shoes? 

(will you have finished)

13. (receive) .................... he ............... my letter by now? (Will he have received)

14. If he releases the pigeons in Virginia they (return) .......... to Kroonstad half an hour before he does

 (will have returned)

15. Do you think the potatoes I left in the garage (rot) .............. by now (will have rotted)

16. By now they (forgot) ........ long .................. about their silly quarrel

(will have long forgotten)

17. By next Tuesday, all the potatoes (eat) ................... (will have been eaten)

18. In a year's time from now they (forget) ............. they ever met us (will have forgotten)

19. In another five years time, half the new paint (blister) .............. off

(will have blistered off)

20. Tomorrow this time the newlyweds (arrive) .................. at their destination

(will have arrived)

21. Eric (pass) ................... Bloemfontein on his way to Port Elizabeth by now

(will have passed)

22. By the end of the year his work (complete)..................... (will have been completed)

23. In another five years' time I hope I (finish) ................. my tertiary studies 

(shalll have finished)

Dr Luky Whittle