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#Will Be Doing
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We can use 'will be doing' to talk about something that will be in progress at a particular moment in the future.
- This time next week, I'll be sitting on the beach in Barbados.
- I'll be thinking about you all back in the office – and I'll be laughing.
- We'll be enjoying ourselves too, boss. We won't be doing any work while you are not here.
We can use 'will be doing' to talk about future events that are fixed or decided.
- I'll be visiting your country on a regular basis. In fact, I'm going to be coming next month.
- He'll be looking after the factory until we can appoint a new manager.
- They'll be thinking about this very carefully over the next few months.
We can use 'will be doing' to predict what is happening now.
- Try phoning his hotel. He'll probably still be having breakfast.
- They'll be deciding who gets the contract at this very moment. I'm very nervous.
- She's not in her office. She'll be having lunch in the canteen.
We can use 'will be doing' to ask extremely politely, and with no pressure, about future plans.
- Will you be eating with us this evening?
- Will you be needing anything else?
- Will they be joining us for dinner?
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#Will Have Done
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We can use 'will have done' to talk about what will have been achieved by a certain moment in time.
We'll have been in these offices for eight years next month.
She'll have visited ten countries in twelve days by the time she gets back.
I'll have finished this project by Friday.
If we want to emphasise the continuity of the activity, we can use the continuous form.
I'll have been working here for 35 years by the time I retire.
She'll have been driving for more than fifteen hours straight by the time she gets here.
They'll have been working with us for 15 years by the end of this year.
We can also use 'will have done' to predict what we think has already happened at present.
He'll have already read the report by now. Too late to change it.
She'll have boarded her plane. It's too late to contact her.
They'll have decided by now. We should hear the result today or tomorrow.
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#Will have been Ing
The Future Perfect Continuous tense is like the Future Perfect tense, but it expresses longer actions or states extending up to some specific event or time in the future. For example:
Ram starts waiting at 9am. I am late and cannot arrive before 10am. Ram will have been waiting for an hour by the time I meet him.
Notice that the long action or state can start at any time in the past, present or future, but of course it always ends in the future.
Look at these examples:
He'll be tired when he gets here. He'll have been travelling all day.
How long will Jo have been working when he retires?
Next month I'll have been studying Chinese for two years.
Will you have been working when I arrive?
He won't have been studying long enough to qualify.
Next week Jane is going to swim from England to France. By the time she gets to France she'll have been swimming non-stop for over thirteen hours.
_FORM
The future perfect continuous is composed of two elements
the future perfect of the verb "to be" (will have been) + the present participle of the main verb (base + ing)
_FUNCTION
Like the future perfect simple, this form is used to project ourselves forward in time and to look back. It refers to events or actions in a time between now and some future time are unfinished. It is most often used with a time expression.
EXAMPLES
I will have been waiting here for three hours by six o'clock.
By 2050 I will have been living in London for sixteen years.
When I finish this course, I will have been learning English for twenty years.
Next year I will have been working here for four years.
When I come at 6:00, will you have been practicing long?
Comments
Thank you so much Elmaz. This is very helpful.