The Future Progressive Tense Basic English Grammar
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hi everybody my name is Alisha in this
lesson I’m going to talk about the
future perfect progressive tense and how
to make statements with this grammar
point this is similar to the future
perfect tense the simple future perfect
distance it might be helpful if you
check out that grammar point in addition
to this grammar point so let’s begin
let’s first take a look at when we use
the future perfect progressive tense we
use this grammar point to refer to
actions that will or won’t be continuing
at a specific point in the future
so here I’ve included won’t be
continuing but this is really really
rare in general this grammar point is
not used a lot and within this grammar
point using the negative form here is
quite rare and in most cases there’s a
better way to say it than to use the
negative form of the future perfect
progressive but just in case you see
it’s somewhere this is how it’s used so
there’s a specific point in the future
and it refers to some action that will
be continuing something that’s
continuing at that point in the future
though the action itself is going to end
as well so we’ll see a few examples of
how to use this in just a moment keep in
mind then you do need a point in time
you do need a specific point in time
here okay let’s take a look at how to
make the future perfect progressive so
when we make the positive form it’s will
- have been plus the progressive form of
the verb when we make the negative form
which again is very rare and it’s not
typically used but just in case you see
it somewhere we would use will not or
won’t + have been plus the progressive
form of the verb so don’t worry too much
about this one it’s not so called
let’s take a look then at some examples
which primarily use the positive and
formal okay first one our verb for this
sentence is live here as of next month I
will have been something in this city
for eight years
so first let’s complete the sentence I
will have been live in the progressive
form where the continuous form is living
so I will have been living in this city
for eight years so what does this
sentence mean this means as of next
month this as of means like at this
certain point in time in the future so
as of next month I will have been living
in this city for eight years so the
speaker is talking in the present but
the point in time is somewhere in the
future next month
so at this point in the future I will
have been living in this city for eight
years means up until this point so at
this point in time this marks a specific
point in time the speaker has been
living so that has been a continuing
action for eight years that action has
continued and perhaps will continue I
think - so this refers to something
that’s continuing at this point in time
okay let’s move on to another example
then here are verbis study when I
graduate college I will have been
something in my field for four years in
my field means like about my topic in my
field field means your topic of study so
when I graduate college I will have been
studying in my field for four years so
again let’s take a look at this here our
point in time is when I graduate college
when I graduate college so this is our
key point in time in the future
somewhere when I graduate college I will
have been studying in my field for four
years means at this point in time this
point marks the four-year point for this
person studies so that means in the
period before that for four years this
person studied his or her topic so this
is referring to something that was
continuing and maybe will continue in
the future but it marks like a key point
here in this case the four-year point
okay let’s move along to the next
example sentence our verb is trained by
next week’s marathon he will have been
something for six months so train the
progressive form is training he will
have been training for six months so
here our deadline is marked with by by
next week’s marathon by next week’s
marathon he will have been training for
six months so at this point in time next
week the total time of his training will
be six months so this is marking a
milestone a key point something some
kind of action here there’s some kind of
special point in time marked here so six
months this is the six-month point for
his training all right let’s move on to
what I said was a kind of a rare
sentence pattern that’s using this in
the negative this is not a common
sentence pattern and it’s not something
that we typically use instead of using
the future perfect progressive tense in
the negative we might use a different
grammar something else to explain a
situation so this was quite rare I just
want to introduce it to maybe give an
example of what it could mean but again
this is something that’s not really used
so with that in mind let’s take a look
the verb here is drink as of tomorrow
she won’t have been something alcohol
for one month so let’s finish the
sentence first the verb is drink so the
progressive form is drinking
as if tomorrow she won’t have been
drinking alcohol for one month so here
we have our point in time as of tomorrow
tomorrow is our point in time she won’t
have been drinking alcohol for one month
that means this action drinking alcohol
has not happened has not been continuing
for a period of one month so in this
example perhaps the speaker decided I’m
sorry
in this example perhaps she this person
decided not to drink alcohol to stop
drinking alcohol so this is showing us
at this point in time tomorrow for a
period of one month the speaker has not
been drinking alcohol so again this is
kind of a rare sort of sentence this is
not so common but in case you in case
you see something like this this is what
it means so that means as of this key
point something has not happened
something has not been happening here in
this case no drinking alcohol in this
period of time so again there are very
few situations perhaps where we need to
talk about this but you might see an
example like that okay let’s continue on
with one more kind of more typical
example here the verb is pay so by 2020
I will have been something student loans
for 10 years student loans is that’s
money that we receive in order to go to
university or to college so the verb is
pay so we will use paying the
progressive form by 2020 I will have
been paying student loans for 10 years
so at 2020 by the year 2020 this is my
point my key point here I will have been
paying that means up until this point
continuously I will have been paying
student loans for a 10-year period so
again this is a continuing action
started some time and is going to
continue to this point mentioned in the
sentence so this is a quick introduction
to the future perfect progressive tense
and like I said it’s not such a common
grammar point but it does communicate a
lot of interesting information about the
future and something that’s going to
continue into the future so if you see
this or if you hear this please try to
keep these points in mind and again the
negative form is quite rare so don’t
worry too much about this one but if you
see it this will help you understand
that it’s an action that was not
continuing so kind of an interesting
thing I think all right but I’ll finish
there if you have any questions or
comments or if you’d like to practice
making a sentence with this grammar
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