Ask Questions in English using the Future Perfect Tense

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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this

lesson we’re going to talk about how to

make questions using the future perfect

tense I’ll review how to make questions

with the simple future perfect and with

the progressive or the continuous

version so I’ll introduce how to make it

when we use it and a few example

sentences let’s get started I want to

begin then with a quick review of future

perfect tense and when to use it you

might have seen the video about the

future perfect tense or the future

perfect progressive tense this is the

same as that to review though for this

lesson we use the future perfect tense

to refer to actions that will or that

won’t will not be finished at a specific

time in the future so this is very

specific to these simple future perfect

tense to give a visual representation if

we’re talking in our conversation in the

present here now there’s some point in

the future like tomorrow or 8 p.m. or

Monday for example so by this point in

time something some action will or will

not be finished by this point in time so

I’ve marked this with a star and a

question so we maybe we will maybe we

won’t we’re using questions for this

lesson so I’ve used a question mark for

this so this is for the simple the

simple future perfect for progressive

however which will also review quickly

today for progressive this is for

actions that will be continuing at a

specific point in the future so this is

one difference between the simple form

and the progressive form with the simple

form the action either will or will not

be finished with progressive form the

action will or will not be continuing so

let’s take a look now at how to make

future perfect questions

let’s begin with the simple version

future perfect simple questions to make

a basic future perfect simple tense

question we begin with will then we add

our subject like I he she for example

we follow with half then we use the past

participle form of the verb and any

additional information this is where we

include our deadline or our cutoff point

I’ll share some examples of this in just

a second if however we want to make a

future perfect progressive question we

can use a very similar pattern we begin

again with will + subject + half but to

make the progressive form we need to use

have bin and instead of the past

participle form of the verb we use the

progressive or the continuous form of

the verb the ing form of a verb as we

did with the simple future tense simple

future perfect rather we then include

any additional information this is where

we include our deadline or our cutoff

point our future reference point that

comes at the end of the sentence the end

of the question if you want to make a

negative we simply replace won’t for

will so instead of using will at the

beginning of the sentence we use won’t

this tends to be used when we’re

confirming something I’ll show you an

example of this at the end of the lesson

but we use this won’t when we’re asking

about something we thought was true and

we want to confirm that with another

person it’s kind of a specific case so

again I’ll show you an example for now

though let’s practice making a few basic

sentences with these patterns all right

over here I want to use the verb finish

for this sentence will he have something

his report by Monday so we see that

Monday is our future point here we also

see we have will he have there’s no bin

here this tells us that it is a

future perfect simple tense sentence so

we need to use the past participle form

of the verb will he have finished his

report by Monday means by this point in

time in the future Monday will the

report be finished will it not be

finished that’s the question

so we’ll say either yes his report will

be finished by Monday or no his report

will not be finished by Monday

so will he have finished his report by

Monday he will have or he won’t have

okay let’s move along will you have

something by 8:00 p.m. by 8:00 p.m. so

the verb I want to use here is eat again

we have will you have there’s no bin

here so that’s a good hint that we

should use the past participle form of

the verb eat so the past participle form

of eat is eaten will you have eaten by

8:00 p.m. so perhaps this is a dinner

invitation for example will you have

eaten by 8:00 p.m. the answer to this

might be no we won’t have eaten or no I

won’t have eaten because I’m working or

yes I’ll have eaten already for example

so we can use the future perfect tense

to reply to this question as well yes I

will have eaten no I won’t have eaten

yet for example you can mix yet and

already into your answers okay let’s

continue along to the next example will

we have been something on this project

for a month as of tomorrow so here we do

see bin will we have been this is a big

hint that we should use the progressive

or the continuous form of the verb our

verb here is work so the progressive

form is working will we have been

working on this project for a month as

of tomorrow

as of tomorrow means tomorrow is kind of

our like landmark point so at this point

in time at

a specific point in time tomorrow will

we have been continuously working on

this project for a one-month period so

in other words we began working on the

project one month ago one month in the

past we’ve been working continuously and

we’re still working on the project so

this is a confirmation question will we

have been working on this project for a

month as of tomorrow you could say yes

we will have been working for a month or

no we won’t have been working for a

month yet something like that could be

the reply so this is probably a

confirmation question about how long a

project has been in progress I want to

finish though with an example of this

won’t that I mentioned earlier I made a

conversation actually so let’s take a

look a says let’s meet at 6 p.m. let’s

imagine it’s an office let’s meet at 6

p.m. B says won’t you have left the

office by then

you have a dinner meeting a says oh

right so this is a very common example

of when we might use this won’t pattern

so like I said it’s used to confirm a

perhaps forgets his or her schedule and

therefore suggests a 6 o’clock meeting

let’s meet at 6 p.m.

B however remembers the schedule and B

asks this question to confirm the future

plan well won’t you have left the office

by 6 p.m. so at this point in time you

will be gone so you will have left the

office at some point before this right

using this won’t you sounds like it’s a

confirmation isn’t that right because

you have a dinner meeting a then

remembers oh right so this is a very

common way we might use this but as you

can see it’s kind of a specific

situation where some person forgets a

future schedule or a future planned

action another person in the situation

remembers it though and

asked to confirm so you might see it

used in something like this however we

tend to use this more in the positive to

ask positive questions about the future

about future activities so I hope that

that helps you make questions with the

future perfect tense and with the future

perfect progressive tense not just

simple if you have any questions or

comments or want to practice making some

sentences please feel free to do so in

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