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FUTURE PERFECT: WILL + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

Let’s talk about future perfect. I will not talk about future continuous, I will only talk

about future perfect because usually my students find it hard to give me a range of
structures as well as another verb form.

What is future perfect?

Future perfect is a verb form that we use to indicate a completed action at some time in
the future.

So if I say “tonight I will eat dinner”. This means some time in the evening, I’ll be
eating. It’s not clear.

But if I say “by 9 o’clock I will have eaten dinner”. That means at night o’clock, I have
finished my dinner. I’m done. The action is completed.

Note: with future perfect, we always need a time.

Instead of saying “the price of food is expected to decline to 20 dollars in 2020”

We can say “the price of food is expected to have declined to 20 dollars by 2020”

Or “the price of food is expected to have experienced a decline to 20 dollars by
2020”

Or “it is expected that the price of food will have declined to 20 dollars by 2020”

Try to give a variety of structures, be accurate, use a variety of verbs, use the future
perfect, you will get a higher score.

Understand that we can use a combination of past and future tenses.

In 2010, the figure stood at… (Past tense)…, but it’s expected to increase slightly
to… (Future tense).

“Respectively” & “in turn”

Jack and Jill are tall and fat respectively.

Who is tall?