Usage of Past Future Perfect Tense
- Past Future Perfect Tense refers to an action, which would have been completed at a particular point of time in the future in action but past in time of speaking. It is always used with a time expression. (In 4 years' time ago, I would have finished studying in university)
- Past Future Perfect Tense refers to an action, which would have been continuing for a period of time by a particular point of time in the future in action but past in time of speaking. it can be substituted by the past future perfect continuous tense (By yesterday I would have finished my homework it can be
substituted By yesterday I would have been finishing my homework
Affirmative
Subject + would/ should + have +Verb 3
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would have studied in Italy
I/ we should have studied in Italy
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Negative
Subject + would/ should + not + have + Verb 3
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I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it would not have studied in Italy
I/ we should not have studied in Italy
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Interrogative
Would/ should + subject + have +Verb 3
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Would I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my friend/it have studied in Italy
Should I/ we have studied in Italy
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Negative interrogative
Would/ should + not + subject + have + Verb 3
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Would not I/ you/ they/ we/ he/she/my
friend/it have studied in Italy?
Should not I/we have studied in Rome?
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Notes:
The shorted
form
I would : I’d
You would : You’d
We would : We’d
They would : They’d
He would : He’d
She would : She’d
Would not : Wouldn’t
Should not : Shouldn’t
Short Answer Question
Past Future
Perfect Tense
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Question
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Short Answer
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Complete
Answer
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In 4 years' time ago, Would you have studied in Madrid?
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Yes I would
No, I would not
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Yes I would have studied in Madrid in 4 years' time ago
No, I would not have studied in Madrid in 4 years' time ago
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In 4 years' time ago, Would he have studied in Madrid?
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Yes he would
No, he would not
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Yes he would have studied in Madrid in 4 years' time ago
No, he would not have studied in Madrid in 4 years' time ago
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