Hi, everyone. I'm Esther.
In this grammar course, I’ll be teaching the future tense.
I’ll talk about the future simple, future continuous, future perfect,
and future perfect continuous tenses. There’s a lot of important information.
So Keep watching.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Esther.
In this video, I will introduce the future simple tense
using 'will' and 'be going to'.
This is a very important tense that will help you express future actions and plans.
There's a lot to learn, so let's get started.
The future simple tense can be used to express a future action.
Let's take a look at some examples.
‘I'm cold.’
Well that's right now.
‘I will close the window.’
We start with the subject ‘will’.
And then, the base verb.
‘I will close the window.’
In this example, I'm making a sudden decision because how I feel right now.
I will close the window because I'm cold right now.
‘I will be at the library tomorrow.’
Again, you start with the subject and then ‘will’.
After that, you have the base verb.
You can use the ‘be’ verb to talk about a confirmed plan.
‘I will be at the library tomorrow.’
The economy will get better next year.
In this case, the subject is ‘the economy’.
Again, we follow with ‘will’ and the base verb ‘get’.
‘The economy will get better next year.’
I'm making a prediction here about something that will happen in the future.
And finally, ‘I will help you with your homework.’
I'm making a future plan to help you.
‘I will help you with your homework.’
It doesn't say when but I am talking about the future.
Let's move on.
You can also use ‘be going to’ to express a future action.
It's almost the same as ‘will’.
Here are some examples.
‘There's no milk.
I'm going to buy some.’
So what you see here is the subject and then the ‘be’ verb - ‘am’.
‘I am’
And then here we used a contraction ‘I'm’.
‘I'm going to buy some.’
I made a decision to buy some because there's no milk.
The next sentence says, ‘It looks like it's going to snow tomorrow.’
Here the subject is ‘it’ and so I use the ‘be’ verb – ‘is’.
‘it is’
‘It's’ is the contraction.
‘It's going to’ And then we use the base verb ‘snow’.
The word ‘tomorrow’ shows that this is a future action.
‘He's going to take a trip in the summer.’
Because the subject is ‘he’, we use the ‘be’ verb – is.
And we can use the contraction ‘he's’. ‘he is’ or ‘he's’ going to
And then the base verb ‘take’
‘take a trip in the summer’
Again an action happening in the future.
Let's move on.
Now, let's take a look at the negative form of
the future simple tense.
The first example says, ‘Stan will not like his English score.’
No matter what the subject is, we follow with ‘will not’ and then the
base form of the verb.
‘Stan will not like his English score.’
‘We won't give you money anymore.’
In this case, the subject is ‘we’.
And we follow with the contraction ‘won't’.
It sounds really different and it's different from other contractions,
but ‘won't’ is the contraction for ‘will not’
so you can say ‘we will not’ or ‘we won't’.
They're the same.
‘We won't give you money anymore.’
Again, you notice the base verb ‘give’ after ‘not’.
‘He is not going to fly until next week.’
This sentence uses ‘be going to’.
The subject is ‘he’.
And therefore the ‘be’ verb we use is – ‘is’
However we put a ‘not’ after the ‘be’ verb.
‘He is not going to …’ And then the base verb.
‘He is not going to fly until next week.’
The last sentence says, ‘You are not going to go to the party tonight.’
The subject is ‘you’ and so we use the ‘be’ verb – ‘are’.
‘You are not going to go …’ That's the base verb.
‘… to the party tonight.’
Let's move on.
Now let's take a look at how to form basic questions in the future simple tense.
The first sentence says, ‘He will play with us.’
To turn this into a question, all we have to do is change the order of the
first two words.
So ‘He will becomes ‘Will he’.
‘Will he play with us?’
‘The next sentence says, ‘He is going to play with us.’
This one uses ‘be going to’.
The subject is ‘he’.
And so the ‘be’ verb to use is – ‘is’.
Then we have ‘going to’ and then the base verb.
‘He is going to play with us.’
When I make a question, I simply again change the order of the first two words.
‘Is he going to play with us?’
Now if the subject were to be ‘you’ or ‘we’ or ‘they’,
we would say ‘they are’.
And so the question would say, ‘Are they'.
'Are they going to play with them?’
for example.
So again, remember, for ‘will’ in the future simple tense,
just say ‘will’ subject and then the base form of the verb.
However for ‘be going to’ questions, make sure that you pay attention to the proper
'be' verb to use at the beginning of the question.
To answer the first question, ‘Will he play with us?’
You can say ‘Yes, he will’ or ‘No, he won't’.
‘Is he going to play with us?’
You can say, ‘Yes, he's going to’ or ‘No, he isn't going to’.
Let's move on.
Let's look at how to form ‘WH’ questions in the future simple tense.
If you notice each question begins with a ‘WH’ word.
Who
When
Where
And What
The first two sentences use ‘will’ for the future simple tense.
‘Who will win the game?’
To answer I can say, ‘My team will win the game.’
‘When will they arrive?’
‘They will arrive in two hours.’
Now these two sentences have ‘be going to’.
‘Where is he going to study?’
In this case, I have the ‘be’ verb – ‘is’ because the subject is ‘he’.
‘Where is he going to study?’
I can say, ‘He is going to study at the library.’
And finally, ‘What are you going to do?’
In this case, I use the ‘be’ verb – ‘are’ because the subject is ‘you’.
‘What are you going to do?’
‘I am going to take a shower.’
Let's move on.
For this checkup let's take a look at the will usage for the future simple tense.
The first example says, ‘Jen and Paul [blank] home soon’
with the verb ‘go’.
Remember, when using ‘will’ for the future simple tense,
it doesn't matter what the subject is.
We say ‘will’ and then the base verb.
So here we can say, ‘Jen and Paul’ or ‘They will go home soon’.
‘I [blank] a scientist after I graduate.’
Try filling in the blank with ‘be’.
Again, we simply say ‘will be’.
‘I will be a scientist after I graduate.’
Now try this one, ‘We [blank] that because it smells bad.’
I want you to use the negative form with the verb ‘eat’.
Here we say, ‘will not eat’ or remember we can use the contraction ‘won't’.
‘We will not eat that’ or ‘We won't eat that because it smells bad’.
Now look for the mistake in this sentence.
‘I will eat a pizza for lunch.’
Remember, we need the base form of the verb.
‘I will eat a pizza for lunch.’
‘Angie and I will playing a game.’
Again we need the base form of the verb.
Angie and I will play a game.’
And finally, ‘Will she be cook dinner?’
This is a question.
However we need to say, ‘Will she cook dinner.’
We do not need a ‘be’ verb here.
Let's move on.
Let's practice the ‘be going to’ usage of the future simple tense.
‘We [blank] going to _blank_ soccer.’
I want you to use the verb ‘watch’.
Remember, for ‘be going to’ in the future simple tense,
we start with the subject and then the ‘be’ verb.
The subject here is ‘we’.
So we need the ‘be’ verb – ‘are’.
‘We are going to’ and then the base verb ‘watch’.
‘We are going to watch soccer.’
‘I [blank] going to [blank].’
The verb is ‘talk’.
And I want you to use the negative form.
In this case, the subject is ‘I’.
And so I use the ‘be’ verb – ‘am’.
‘I am’ and then we need ‘not’.
‘I am not going to’
Then the base verb ‘talk’.
‘Why [blank] you going to [blank]?’
The verb here is ‘go’.
In a question, especially a ‘WH’ question, we start with the ‘WH’ word,
and then the ‘be’ verb.
‘are’ is the correct ‘be’ verb because the subject is ‘you’.
Then we have ‘going to’.
And again, the base form of the verb.
‘Why are you going to go?’
Now try to find the mistake in the next sentence.
‘You are going to studying at home.’
Can you find the mistake?
‘You are going to’ that's correct.
But we need the base form of the verb.
‘You are going to study at home.’
‘You will be going to learn English.’
‘You will be going’
That sounds a little strange.
Remember, we don't need the ‘will’ here.
We're using ‘be going to’ and we need to change the ‘be’ verb to match the subject.
‘You are going to learn English’.
Or remember, you can also say, ‘You will learn English.
and finally ‘Is he going to do play soccer.’
uh-oh We have two verbs here.
‘Is he going to’ - that's correct.
But we have ‘do’ and ‘play’.
We don't need both, so we say, ‘Is he going to play soccer?’
Great job everybody.
Let's move on.
Great job, everyone.
You now have a better understanding of the future simple tense.
There's still a lot of practice you need to do because this tense is so important.
Keep studying and I'll see you in the next video.
Hi, everybody.
I'm Esther.
In this video, I will introduce the future continuous English grammar tense.
This tense can be used to express an ongoing action in the future.
I'll go over the basics of this lesson.
And by the end you'll have a better idea of when to use this tense.
There's a lot to learn, so let's get started.
One usage of the future continuous tense
is to talk about an ongoing action that will happen in the future.
We include when this action will be happening.
We can use ‘will be’ or ‘be going to be’.
To do this, let's take a look at some examples.
‘I will be taking the test soon.’
So you can see here we have the subject and then ‘will be’.
After that, we include verb +ing.
The word ‘soon’ at the end of this sentence indicates when this action will be happening.
‘I am going to be taking the test soon.’
This sentence means the same thing as the first sentence,
but instead of ‘will be’, we used ‘be going to be’.
Here the subject is ‘I’.
And therefore we have the ‘be’ verb ‘am’.
‘I am going to be’ And then verb +ing.
‘I am going to be taking the test soon.’
I can also use the contraction and say.
‘I'm going to be taking the test soon.’
The next sentence says, ‘He will be sleeping by 10 p.m.’
And the last sentence says, ‘They are going to be …’
Here, because the subject is ‘they’, we use ‘are’.
‘They are going to be studying …’ There's the verb +ing
‘… next October.’
‘by 10 pm’ and ‘next October’ show when these actions will be happening.
Let's move on.
The future continuous tense is also used to show
that a short action in the future is happening
during or while a longer action is in progress in the future,.
We can use the word ‘when’ to show when the shorter action occurs.
Take a look at the first example,
‘I will be sleeping when they arrive.’
Here we see two actions,
‘I will be sleeping’ and ‘they arrive’.
The part of the sentence that's in the future continuous tense is the longer action
that's in progress in the future.
‘I will be sleeping.’
Remember, ‘I will be’ and then verb +ing.
This is the action that is ongoing in the future.
Then we see ‘when they arrive’.
This is in the present tense.
‘they arrive’
This is the shorter action that happens while this action is ongoing.
‘We will be having dinner when the movie starts.’
This is very similar to the first sentence.
‘We will be having dinner …’
That's the ongoing action that will happen in the future.
And while this is happening, the movie will start.
But again, we use the present tense here.
‘the movie starts’
So we will be having dinner when the movie starts.
‘Tina is going to be working when you leave.’
Remember, we can use ‘be going to be’ in this tense so,
‘She is going to be working when you leave.’
This shorter action will happen while this ongoing action is in progress.
And finally, ‘It will be raining when you go shopping’.
Again, this is the ongoing action.
And this is the shorter action.
Let's move on.
Now, I'll talk about the negative form of the future continuous tense.
Here are some examples:
‘He will not be reading before bed.’
For the negative form, after the subject and ‘will’, we say ‘not be’.
And then verb +ing.
‘He will not be reading before bed.’
He'll be doing something else.
The next sentence says,
‘My dad won't be cheering when the game ends.’
So this is very similar to the first sentence.
We have the subject, ‘my dad,’
and instead of ‘will not’ we use the contraction ‘won't’.
Remember, ‘won't’ is a contraction for ‘will not’.
‘My dad won't …’ and then we have ‘be’ verb +ing.
‘My dad won't be cheering when the game ends.’
The next sentence says, ‘He is not going to be working tomorrow.’
Here we have the ‘be going to be’.
So ‘he’ is the subject and so we use the ‘be’ verb ‘is’.
After the ‘be’ verb, we say ‘not’.
He is not going to ‘be’ verb +ing.
‘He is not going to be working tomorrow.’
Remember, we can also use a contraction here and say,
‘He isn't going to be working tomorrow.’
That's okay as well.
‘We aren't going to be shopping on Sunday.’
Here the subject is ‘we’.
And so the ‘be’ verb to use is ‘are’.
I use the contraction here ‘aren't’ for ‘are not’.
‘We are not …’ or ‘We aren't going to be shopping on Sunday.’
Great job.
Let's move on.
Now let's talk about how to form basic questions in the future continuous tense.
Take a look at this first sentence.
It says, ‘He will be traveling next month.’
Now, to turn this into a question,
all you have to do is change the order of the first two words.
So ‘He will’ becomes ‘Will he’.
‘Will he be traveling next month?’
You'll notice that the rest of the words don't change.
Only the first two words.
So, ‘Will he be traveling next month?’
To answer you can say, ‘Yes, he will.’
or ‘No, he won't.’
The next sentence says, ‘They are going to be living there.’
Again to turn this into a question, simply switch the order of the first two words.
‘They are’ becomes ‘Are they’.
‘Are they going to be living there?’
To reply you can say, ‘Yes, they are.’
or ‘No, they aren't.’
Now, you'll notice in these two sentences,
there is no exact point in time that shows when this action will be happening in the
future.
There is no ‘next month’ or anything like that.
In that case, it simply means sometime in the future.
So, they are going to be living there sometime in the future.
That's what that means.
Great job, everyone.
Let's move on.
Now, I'll go into how to form ‘WH’ questions in the future continuous tense.
Take a look at the board.
First, you'll notice that all of these questions begin with the ‘Wh’ words -
‘Where,’ ‘What,’ ‘Who,’ and ‘When’.
Let's take a look at the first question.
‘Where will he be working?’
When we use ‘will be’, we start with ‘Where’ and then ‘will’.
After that, we have the subject + be and then verb +ing.
‘Where will he be working?’
I can answer by saying,
‘He will’ or ‘He'll be working at the factory.’
The next question says, ‘What will she be watching?’
This is very similar to the first question.
The only difference is that the subject is now ‘she’ and the verb is different.
‘What will she be watching?’
I can say, ‘She'll be watching’ or ‘She will be watching her favorite tv show’.
‘Who will they be talking to?’
Again, very similar.
To answer,I can say,
‘They will be talking to their mom.’
The last question has ‘be going to be’.
‘When are we …’ here the subject is ’we’.
So we start with the ‘be verb’ – ‘are’.
‘When are we going to be meeting Casey?’
I can say,
‘We are going to be meeting Casey later tonight.’
Good job, everybody.
Let’s move on.
Let's start a checkup for the future continuous tense.
Take a look at the first sentence.
It says, ‘They _blank_ at school tomorrow.’
I want you to use ‘will' and then the verb ‘study’, for this tense.
Remember, in the future continuous tense,
no matter what the subject, we say ‘will be’ and then verb +ing.
So the correct answer for this sentence is ‘they will be studying’
‘They will be studying at school tomorrow.’
The next sentence says.
‘Jesse _blank_ a TV show later.’
Here, instead of ‘will’ try to use ‘be going to be’.
‘Jesse _blank_ watch a TV show later.’
I want you to use the verb ‘watch’.
So, Jessie is a ‘he’ or it can be a ‘she’.
Sometimes the name is used for a boy or a girl.
Either way I need to use the ‘be’ verb – ‘is’.
‘Jesse is going to be’
and then we need verb +ing.
‘Jesse is going to be watching a TV show later.’
The next sentence, I want you to find the mistake.
‘We willn’t be studying at the library today.’
‘We will not …’
What's the contraction for ‘will not’?
Well it definitely isn't ‘willn’t’.
The contraction is ‘won't’.
‘We won't be studying at the library today.’
And finally, ‘Sally and I will be meet our friends soon.’
Remember, we need ‘will be’ and then verb +ing.
So the correct answer is,
‘Sally and I will be meeting our friends soon.’
Good job, everyone.
Let's move on.
Now, let's move on to the next checkup of the future continuous tense.
Take a look at the first sentence.
It says, ‘He _blank_ at the door when the movie ends.’
I want you to use ‘will’ and the verb ‘wait’.
Remember, for this tense, we need ‘will be’ and then verb +ing,
so the correct answer is,
‘He will be waiting at the door when the movie ends.’
The next sentence says, ‘We are not …’ so this is a negative,
‘_blank_ the play when he performs’.
Here, instead of ‘will’, I want you to use ‘be going to be’ and the verb ‘see’.
We already have part of that phrase for you.
‘We are …’, here's the ‘be’ verb, ‘not’
so this is negative.
And then we say ‘going to be’
and then verb +ing.
‘We are not going to be seeing the play when he performs.’
Now find the mistake in this sentence.
‘They won't be stay at home when the delivery man visits.’
‘They won't be’
That's correct in the negative form.
However, we need verb +ing.
‘They won't be staying at home when the delivery man visits.’
And finally, ‘Terry is going to working when the manager arrives’.
‘Terry’ is a ‘he’ or ‘she’ so ‘is’ is the correct ‘be’ verb to use.
‘going to’ that's also correct.
What we're missing here is ‘be’.
‘Terry is going to be working when the manager arrives.’
Good job, everybody.
Let's move on.
Now, you have a better understanding of the future continuous tense.
Please take some time to study and practice this tense as it is very important.
I know English can be a struggle, but don't worry, I'm here for you.
And I believe in you.
I'll see you in the next video.
Hi, everyone.
I’m Esther.
In this video, I will introduce the future perfect tense.
This tense is used to express an action in the future
that will happen by a specific time in the future.
This tense can be a little difficult to understand but don't worry I will guide you through it
so keep watching.
The future perfect tense is used to express an action in the future
that will happen by a specific time in the future.
Let's look at some examples.
The first sentence says,
‘The snow will have stopped by April.’
We start with the subject.
In this case, ‘The snow’.
Then, we follow with ‘will have’ and the past participle of the verb.
In this case, we used ‘stopped’ for the verb ‘stop’.
At the end of the sentence, you'll notice ‘by April’.
‘by April’ shows the specific time in the future when this action will have happened.
The next sentence says,
‘By the time he graduates, he will have completed five years of study.’
In this sentence,
‘By the time he graduates’ or the specific time in the future.
comes at the beginning of the sentence
so ‘by’ plus ‘a time in the future’
can come at the end or it can come at the beginning.
‘By the time he graduates, he will have completed…’
Again, you see ‘subject + will + have’ and the past participle of the verb.
In this case, ‘completed’.
‘By the time he graduates, he will have completed five years of study.’
The next sentence says,
‘Her arm will have fully healed by the summer.’
In this example, ‘by the summer’, the future specific time, comes at the end.
By this time in the future, her ‘arm’, that's the subject, will have ‘healed’,
the past participle.
Here I put ‘fully’ just to show how much it will have healed.
I’m just adding an extra description.
The last sentence says,
‘By next month, …’ so here we see ‘by’ and ‘the time’ at the beginning of the
sentence.
‘you’, that's the subject.
‘will have received’, there's the past participle.
‘your promotion.’
Again, ‘By next month you will have received your promotion.’
Let's move on.
Now, let's talk about the negative form of the future perfect tense.
Here are some examples.
Let's take a look.
The first sentence says,
‘I will not have graduated from university by July.’
First, I want to point out that at the end, I have the specific time in the future,
‘byJuly’.
Now for the negative form, what I do is say, ‘subject’ and ‘will not have’,
then we put the past participle of the verb.
‘I will not have graduated from university by July.’
The next sentence says,
‘Ollie and Max will not have spoken ...’
There it is again, ‘will not have’ and then the past participle of speak ...
which is ‘spoken’.
‘… before the plane leaves.’
Here, instead of the word ‘by’, we used ‘before’ to show a specific time in the
future.
That's okay as well.
The next sentence says,
‘You will not have eaten dinner by 6 p.m.’
Here, again, we've used ‘by 6 p.m.’ to show a time in the future.
And again, you see ‘you will not have’ and then the past participle of eat which
is ‘eaten’.
The last sentence says, ‘By noon …’, there's the time again,
‘I will not have taken off to Japan.’
‘taken’ is the past participle of ‘take’.
Let's move on.
Now, let's move on to how to form questions in the future perfect tense.
The first sentence here says,
‘You will have gone to work by 10 a.m.’
To turn this into a question, all we have to
do is switch the order of the first two words.
‘You will’ becomes ‘Will you’.
You'll notice that the rest of the question stays the same as the sentence.
‘Will you have gone to work by 10 a.m.?’
You can answer by saying, ‘Yes, I will have.’
or ‘No, I will have not.’
The next sentence says, ‘She will have woken up by noon.’
Again, to turn this into a question just switch the first two words.
‘She will’ becomes ‘Will she’.
‘Will she have woken up by noon?’
Again, the rest of the sentence stays the same.
‘Will she have woken up by noon?’
To reply, you can say, ‘Yes, she will have.’
or ‘No, she will have not.’
Let's move on.
Now, I'll talk about how to form ‘WH’ questions in the future perfect tense.
If you notice on the board, each of these questions begins with the ‘WH’ word.
‘Where’, ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘when’.
Then after each ‘WH’ word comes the word ‘will’.
‘Where will’ ‘What will’
‘Who will’ and ‘When will’
So let's take a look at the first question.
‘Where will’…’ then you add ‘the subject’.
In this case, ‘you’.
And then, ‘have’ and after that the past participle of the verb.
In this case, it's ‘traveled’.
‘Where will you have traveled by December?’
I can answer by saying, ‘I will have traveled to Germany and Denmark.’
There are many possible answers here and this is just an example.
The next question says, ‘What will they have done …’
‘done’ is the past participle of ‘do’.
‘… by the end of the evening?’
I can answer by saying, ‘They will have done their homework.’
The next question says, ‘Who will she have interviewed by 5 p.m.?’
Again, ‘who will’ + the subject ‘have’ and the past participle of the verb.
I can answer this question by saying,
‘She will have interviewed the teachers by 5 p.m.’
And finally, ‘When will they have started to learn?’
One way to answer this question is to say,
‘They will have started to learn in January.’
Let's move on.
Let's start this checkup for the future perfect tense.
Take a look at the first sentence.
It says, ‘We _blank_ that book by tomorrow.’
The verb to use is ‘read’.
Remember, in the future perfect tense, we start with the subject,
and we have that here, ‘we’.
Then say, ‘will have’ and the past participle of the verb.
So here we need to say ‘will have’.
What is the past participle of ‘read’?
The correct answer is ‘read’.
They're spelled the same, but they are pronounced differently.
‘We will have read that book by tomorrow.’
The next sentence says, ‘She _blank_ the video by bedtime.’
Here we have ‘not’ so I want you to try the negative form.
And the verb to try is ‘watch’.
In the negative form, we start with the subject.
And instead of ‘will have’, we say ‘will not have’.
‘She will not have …’ Then we need the past participle of the verb.
In this case, it is ‘watched’.
‘She will not have watched the video by bedtime.’
Now find the mistake in the next sentence.
‘Ryan will not have be to Cuba by summer.’
This is the negative form because we have ‘will not have’.
That's correct.
But we need the past participle of ‘be’.
So we need to change it to ‘been’.
‘Ryan will not have been to Cuba by summer.’
The last sentence says, ‘I will have go to school by 8 30 a.m.’
Here, we have the affirmative, ‘will have’.
But, uh oh, we forgot the past participle of ‘go’ which is ‘gone’.
‘I will have gone to school by 8 30 a.m.’
Great job, everybody.
Let's move on.
Good job, guys.
Now you have a better understanding of the future perfect tense.
I want you to keep studying and practicing this tense.
I know studying English can be difficult, but I believe in you
and I will guide you through it.
I'll see you in the next video. Hi, everybody.
I’m Esther.
Welcome to the last tense.
If you haven't checked out my earlier videos on the tenses,
please go check them out now.
In this video, I will talk about the future perfect continuous tense.
This tense can be used to describe an ongoing action
or situation that will last for a specified period of time in the future.
There's a lot to learn, so keep watching.
The future perfect continuous tense is used to talk about an ongoing situation
that will be in progress for a period of time at a specific point in time in the future.
Let's take a look at some examples.
The first sentence says,
‘She will have been living in Ireland for 10 years at that point.’
So no matter what the subject, in this case we have ‘she’,
we follow with ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
So, ‘She will have been living in Ireland …’
Then this sentence has the duration.
What period of time will this last? ‘for 10 years’
And when?
Remember, we need a point in time in the future.
In this case, we just use a general expression, ‘at that point’.
Here, it's not specific and that's okay.
We'll see some specific examples in the next sentence.
‘By midnight, he will have been sleeping for four hours.’
Here, the specific time in the future comes at the beginning of the sentence.
‘By midnight’ And, again, we see ‘will have been’ +
verb 'ing'.
‘By midnight, he will have been sleeping for four hours.’.
Here we have ‘for four hours’.
This shows the duration or how long this action will be in progress.
So, again, ‘By midnight he will have been sleeping for four hours.’
The last sentence says, ‘In June …’
Here, again, we have the specific time in the future at the beginning of the sentence.
‘In June, ‘we’ that's the subject.
‘we'll have been studying …’ There's the ‘verb +ing’.
‘… at this university for four years.’
Here is the duration, ‘for four years’.
Good job.
And let's move on.
Now, let's look at the negative form of the future perfect continuous tense.
In the affirmative form, we say ‘subject’ + ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
In the negative form, however, we say, ‘subject’ + ‘will not have been’
and then ‘verb +ing’.
Let's take a look at some examples.
The first sentence here says,
‘At that point, I will not have been living in Spain for 10 years.’
And so you see it.
‘I’ is the subject.
‘… will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
In this case, ‘living’.
The next sentence says,
‘He will not have been sleeping for four hours by midnight.’
Again, we see the ‘subject’ + ‘will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’,
‘sleeping’.
The last sentence says,
‘By then, we will not have been studying at this university for three years.’
Again, we see the ‘subject’ + ‘we will not have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’
here, ‘studying’.
Let's move on.
Now let's take a look at how to form questions in the future perfect continuous tense.
Here, the sentence says,
‘Sean will have been playing soccer for a year by December.’
To turn this into a question, all we have to do is switch the order of the first two
words.
So instead of ‘Sean will’, I can say ‘Will Sean’.
‘Will Sean have been playing soccer for a year by December?’
You'll notice that the rest of the sentence stays the same.
I can answer by saying, ‘Yes, he will have.’
or ‘No, he will have not.’
The next sentence says,
‘They will have been working there for three months by that time.’
Again, I changed the order of the first two words.
To turn this into a question ‘They will’ becomes ‘Will they’.
‘Will they have been working there for three months by that time?’
Again, the rest of the sentence stays the same.
I can answer by saying, ‘Yes, they will have.’
or ‘No, they will have not.’
Let's move on.
Now let's take a look at how to form ‘WH” questions in the future perfect continuous
tense.
Take a look at the board.
All of these questions begin with a ‘WH’ word.
‘where’ ‘what’
‘who’ and ‘how long’
Take a look at the first question.
‘Where will you have been walking?’
To form a ‘WH’ question, we start with the ‘WH’ word, then ‘will’.
After that, we add the subject, ‘you’, ‘they’, ‘she’ and ‘you’.
After that, we add ‘have been’ + ‘verb +ing’.
‘Where will you have been walking?’
‘What will they have been playing?’
‘Who will she have been talking to?’
and ‘How long will you have been working …?’
There's the ‘verb +ing’.
‘ … there by the time you finish?’
So let's go through one more time and I'll show you how to answer these questions.
‘Where will you have been walking?’
I can answer by saying, ‘I will have been walking in the park.’
‘What will they have been playing?’
‘They will have been playing video games.’
‘Who will she have been talking to?’
‘She will have been talking to her cousin.’
And finally,
‘How long will you have been working there by the time you finish?’
‘By the time I finish, I will have been working there for five years.’
Let's move on.
Let's start a checkup for the future perfect continuous tense.
Take a look at the board.
The first sentence says,
‘By 10 p.m., I _blank_ that game for three hours.’
I’m looking to use the verb ‘play’.
Remember, in this tense, we need to have ‘subject’ + ‘will have been’ and then ‘verb +ing’.
So ‘By 10 p.m., I will have been playing …’
Again, we need ‘verb +ing’.
‘… I will have been playing that game for three hours.
The next sentence says,
‘When she gets here, he _blank_ dinner for an hour.’
Try to use the verb ‘cook’.
Again, no matter what the subject, it doesn't change.
‘When she gets here, he will have been cooking …’
‘When she gets here, he will have been cooking dinner for an hour.’
Now, find the mistake in the next sentence.
‘Steve and Jan will not have be waiting for a year when it arrives.’
Here, we have a negative form, ‘they will not have’.
Then we need ‘been’.
‘They will not have been …’
And then the ‘verb +ing’ is here so that's correct.
‘Steve and Jan will not have been waiting for a year when it arrives.’
The last sentence says,
‘It will have been work for 10 years on January 15th.’
So maybe here I’m talking about a computer or a TV.
Maybe some kind of machine.
‘it’ ‘It will have been …’
I see the mistake here.
We need ‘verb +ing’.
‘It will have been working for 10 years on January 15th.
Great job, everybody.
Let's move on.
Thank you so much for watching this grammar course on the future tense.
If you haven’t watched the grammar course for the past or present tense,
make sure you do that now. Thank you again for watching,
and I’ll see you next time. Bye.