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Future Perfect Continous Tense
Form
The future perfect continuous tense is formed with will have been + the –ing form.
I will/shall
You will
He will
She will
It will have been walking, talking, going, moving, buying....etc.
We will
You will
They will
The use of the future perfect continuous tense
This tense s used to express:
1. Duration of a single event in the future which takes place before another future event:
They will have been flying over Paris for two hours before any runaways are empty for their landing.
2. Like the future perfect, it is normally used with a time expression beginning with by:
By the end of the next year, I shall have been living in Sarajevo for ten years.
Compare:
By the end of the school year we will have been reading books for nine months.
-we will read till then and continue reading, the emphasis is on expressing time- till then it will be nine months since they started reading
By the end of the school year we will have read 70 books.
We will complete the action of reading 70 books.
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