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Pemmican Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

Will-future progressive tense

Hello everyone,

this is my first post in this forum and I hope someone can help me.
I am not a native English speaker so I hope you will forgive me all the mistakes I certainly will do... Emotion: wink

Well, actually my question...
In my English Grammar book I used to use at school, it was said that there is a "Will-Future-Progressive-Tense" in existance in English, formed like

will have been + present participle

The only information given to this was that it is rarely used.
I'd like to know when this tense is going to be used (context), can anyone of you explain that to me please or give an example?

Thank you very much!
  

Top answer

Will-Future "Perfect" Progressive Tense of course, sorry

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Will-Future "Perfect" Progressive Tense

of course, sorry Emotion: wink
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Used almost exactly like "have been + present participle," except that it's in the future.
Example: "By the time you get to work tomorrow, I will have been slaving away for hours."
So basically, a future state resulting from an action occurring sometime before it.
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imagine two events taking place... one starting sometime in the FUTURE and continuing on and on, when the second one interrupts it (or at least takes place during the first event). the first event will use the future perfect (often followed by a "quantity" of time); the second in the present (often preceded by the expression "by the time")

example:

event 1) driving a car
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I thought about this use, thank you for your example, it helped me a lot Emotion: wink

But one more question:
If the continuing acti
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Rare?
I beg to differ. In my opinion this tense is very common, and by the end of the day, I daresay, it will have been of great use to a great many people.
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dear pemmican... sounds like you have studied french (or another romance language)! logically, you are correct that BOTH events are future, but english grammar assumes that the future perfect will logically and contextually place the other event also in the future. (other languages require a future tense for both events.) therefore, your examples are incorrect, a hyper-correction. i understan
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Dear Moijelesuis,
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I haven't studied a Romance language (I took French at school for a few years, but I've forgotten nearly everything by now).
My question was just because it would have been logical if the 2nd part of those sentences were a future tense, too.
But as you've mentioned: It's also logical to assume the other tense will refer to a futur
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Provided that you continue to study in this way,in three years' time you___________English.

a) will have mastered
b) will have been mastering

What about the abover question?
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Have a try first yourself, Anon!
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Hello there. I just got interested in Pemmican's question and all of the replies above. From kitkattail's example (+a):

[1] By the time you get to work tomorrow, I will have been slaving away for hours.
[2] By the time you get to work tomorrow, I will be slaving away for hours.
[3] Until the time you get to work tomorrow, I will have been slaving away for hours.
[4] Until th
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