1 Lesson Future Perfect

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FUTURE PERFECT

Future perfect

The Future Perfect refers to an action that will be completed a time in the future. It is not a very common verb form.

I will have done all my work by this evening.

Form:

The future perfect is composed of two elements:

1. The simple future of the verb to have (will have)

2. The past participle of the main verb:

Future perfect form

 

Function:

The future perfect refers to a completed action in the future. When we use this tense we are projecting ourselves forward into the future and looking back at an action that will be completed some time later than now.
It is often used with a time expression using by + a point in future time.


Future perfect examples

 

 

QUESTION: Change the following affirmative sentence into the negative and interrogative form:

By 10 pm tonight, John will have met Lucy.