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The English future perfect
tense shows a combination of
future time and the
present perfect tense: an action or event
that
started in the past, is starting now, or will start in the
future and will be completed at some future time.
Sentences in future perfect
tense can be negative as well as affirmative.
The negative form is
will + not + have + the past participle (third
form of the verb)
The combination will + not is often contracted to won't.
Examples:
will not (won't) have finished
something
will not (won't) have gone
somewhere
will not (won't) have seen
someone
will not (won't) have done
something
will not (won't) have had
something
will not (won't) have taken
place
The meaning of the negative
forms is partly the same as the affirmative forms:
the action or event started before now, is starting
now, or will start after now; the difference is
that the verb after "have" will not be finished.
Examples:
We're running behind schedule
We will not (won't) have finished the work by
the deadline. (At the deadline the work still
won't be finished.)
Bob left work at 5:00 and
his house is about 30 miles from his office. He
will not (won't) have arrived home until after
5:30.
Eun-Mi just started graduate
school. She will not (won't) have completed work
for her Master's degree for at least one more
year.
We don't have to wait for
Julio. He will not (won't) have finished his test
for at least another hour.
We'll have dinner later than
usual tonight. I put the roast into the oven only
30 minutes ago, so at our normal dinner time it
will not (won't) have finished cooking.
If you call Judy at 6:00 AM,
she won't be in a good mood because she will not
(won't) have had her coffee yet.
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