Learning English Grammar

The future perfect

Jun 9, 2020
Ask episode
AI Snips
Chapters
Transcript
Episode notes
INSIGHT

Purpose of Future Perfect Tense

  • The future perfect tense expresses events predicted to finish before a specific future time.
  • It highlights completion relative to another future event, enhancing clarity in time relationships.
ANECDOTE

Examples of Future Perfect Usage

  • Examples include "Next year, I will have finished my course" and "By 2020, the city's population will have doubled."
  • "By" phrases indicate the deadline before which completion occurs.
ADVICE

Forming Future Perfect Sentences

  • Use "by the time that" plus present simple for the future time clause in future perfect sentences.
  • Combine "will have" plus past participle with time expressions for precise predictions.
Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode
Get the app