future perfect

future perfect

The future perfect tense is for talking about an action that will be completed between now and some point in the future. Imagine that your friend Linda asks you to take care of her cat for a few days while she goes on a trip. She wants you to come over today at noon so she can show you where to find the cat food and how to mash it up in the bowl just right so that Fluffy will deign to eat it. But you’re busy this afternoon, so you ask Linda if you can come at eight o’clock tonight instead.

I will have finished my homework by dinner time.

How long will you have lived in this city next year?

By next summer, they will have built the bridge.

The plane will have taken off by two hours.

Mary will have gone on a holiday by this time next year.

I will have graduated from the university in two years.

She will have fallen asleep by the time we get home.

By June, I will have finished my work.

By the time I arrive to the school, math lesson will have started.

They will have written the reports by the time you find her.