Usage of Future Perfect Continuous Tense
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense emphasize the duration of an activity that will be in progress before another time or event in the future (I will have been sleeping for two hours by the time my brother gets home because he will get home at midnight
Affirmative
Subject + will/ shall + have + been + Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it will have been studying in Italy
I/ we shall have been studying in Italy
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Negative
Subject + will/ shall + not + have + been + Verb-ing
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it will not have been studying in Italy
I/ we shall not have been studying in Italy
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Interrogative
Will/ shall + subject + have + been + Verb-ing
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Will I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it have been studying in Italy?
Shall I/ we have been studying in Italy?
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Negative interrogative
Will/ shall + not + subject + have + been + Verb-ing
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Will not I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my
friend/it have been studying in Italy?
Shall not I/we have been studying in Rome?
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Notes:
The shorted
form
I will : I’ll
You will : You’ll
We will : We’ll
They will : They’ll
He will : He’ll
She will : She’ll
Will not : Won’t
Shall not : Shan’t
Short Answer Question
Future
Perfect Continuous Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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Will you have been studying in Madrid?
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Yes I will
No, I will not
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Yes I will have been studying in Madrid
No, I will not have been studying in Madrid |
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Will he have been studying in Madrid?
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Yes he will
No, he will not
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Yes he will have studying in Madrid
No, he will not have been studying |