Future Continuous vs Future Perfect

Exercises

Explanation

1. Future Continuous

Form: will / won’t be + verb-ing

We use the Future Continuous to talk about actions that:

A. Will be in progress at a specific future time

• At 10 p.m., I will be driving home.

• Don’t phone at noon — we will be having lunch.

• This time tomorrow, she won’t be working; she’ll be relaxing.

B. Are temporary or part of a short future plan

• Next month, I will be staying in a hostel while my flat is repaired.

• For the next few days, we will be using my brother’s car.

• Will you be working weekends in your new job?

2. Future Perfect

Form: will / won’t have + past participle (V3)

We use the Future Perfect for actions that:

A. Will be completed before a future time

• By 6 o’clock, I will have cooked dinner.

• They will have built the new bridge by next winter.

• Will you have finished the report before the meeting starts?

B. Show how long something will have continued by a future date

• In two years, we will have lived here for a decade.

• By next April, she will have worked in the company for five years.

Common time expressions:

by, by the time, before, in a year / in two months, by next week

• I won’t have completed the project by Friday.

• By the time we get home, the children will have fallen asleep.

• In six months, he will have saved enough money to travel.