Future perfect and continuous
will have finished, will be lying, will have been working.
The rules
- Future perfect: the action will be complete before a future moment.
- Future continuous: an action in progress at a future moment.
- Future perfect continuous: the length of an activity up to a future point.
- "By + future time" usually goes with the future perfect: "will have found".
- "Will you be using…?" asks politely about plans, without sounding like a request.
- The future perfect places the leaving before "then".
Examples
- By the time you arrive, we will have finished dinner.
- This time tomorrow, I will be lying on a beach in Greece.
- By next June, she will have been working here for ten years.
- By 2030, scientists will have found a cure.
- Will you be using the car tonight? I need it.
- I will already be gone at that time.
Quick check
Pick an answer to see the rule behind it.
1.By the time you arrive, we _____ dinner.
2.This time tomorrow, I _____ on a beach in Greece.
3.By next June, she _____ here for ten years.
4.Which sentence is correct?
5._____ you be using the car tonight? I need it.