Use the Future Perfect Continuous to say how long an activity will have been going on at a future moment: By June I'll have been working here for five years. Form: will have been + -ing.
By June I'll have been working here for five years.
A bar that runs up to a future moment: from there, you look back at how long the activity has lasted.
| Positive | I'll have been working. · She'll have been working. |
|---|---|
| Negative | I won't have been working. |
| Question | Will you have been working? |
At 5 pm she'll have been driving for ten hours.
The length of an activity measured at a future moment.
He'll be tired when he arrives. He'll have been travelling all day.
An activity that explains how things will be at a future moment.
Words that often go with this tense. They're hints, not rules.
By 2027 I _____ English for ten years.
Other future tenses: Future Simple (will), Future Continuous, Future Perfect.
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It's the rarest of the twelve. In everyday speech people often say it another way (In June it'll be a year since I started here). It's still worth recognising for reading and exams.
State verbs, which describe states rather than actions: know, believe, understand, like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, own, belong, seem, mean. They normally stay simple even when you mean 'right now': I know, not I'm knowing.