Future continuous and future perfect
Use will be + -ing for an action in progress at a future time, and will have + past participle for an action that will be finished before a future time.
How it works
- Future continuous: will be + -ing, an action in progress at a future moment: This time tomorrow I'll be flying to Seoul.
- It also asks politely about plans: Will you be using the car tonight?
- Future perfect: will have + past participle, finished before a future time: By 2030, I'll have paid off my loan.
- By + time, or by the time + present simple, often goes with the future perfect: By the time you arrive, we'll have eaten (not by the time you will arrive).
- Future perfect continuous for duration up to a future point: In June, I'll have been working here for ten years.
Examples
This time next week, I'll be lying on a beach in Nha Trang.
Don't call at eight; we'll be having dinner.
By the end of the year, I'll have saved enough for a laptop.
The film will have started by the time we get there.
Will you be going past the post office this afternoon?
Common mistakes
Wrong: By the time you
willarrive, we will have left.Right: By the time you arrive, we will have left.
Wrong: I will have
finishthe report by Monday.Right: I will have finished the report by Monday.
Wrong: This time tomorrow I will be
flyto Đà Nẵng.Right: This time tomorrow I will be flying to Đà Nẵng.
Practice
1 of 15Fill the gap.
Level: EGP Future: will be + -ing appears at B1 and is controlled at B2; will have + past participle (future perfect) is a B2 point. Written for Gloss.