2.12. The future perfect continuous tense

Future Perfect Continuous Tense образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be в форме Future Perfect (will have been) и формы причастия настоящего времени смыслового глагола: I will have been working, he will have been working.

Отрицательная форма – I / he /she /we / you / they will not (won’t) have been working

Вопросительная форма - Will I (he / she / we / you / they) have been working?

СЛУЧАИ УПОТРЕБЛЕНИЯ:

Future Perfect Continuous употребляется для выражения длительного будущего действия, которое начнется ранее другого будущего действия (или момента) и будет еще совершаться в момент его наступления. Как и другие времена этой группы Future Perfect Continuous употребляется, когда указан период времени, в течение которого действие будет совершаться.

I’ll begin to work at ten o’clock Я начну работать в десять часов утра.

in the morning. When you return Когда ты вернешься домой в пять часов,

home at five o’clock, I will have я буду уже работать семь часов.

been working for seven hours.

By the 1^st of September he will have К 1 сентября он будет учиться в этом

been studying at this Institute институте уже три года.

for three years.

Ex. 111. Make up sentences as in the example.

Example: Have you been waiting for two hours? (midday)

By midday I’ll have been waiting for three hours.

1. Have you been learning English for three years? (July).

2. Have they been studying here for five weeks? (Monday)

3. Have you been living here for nineteen years? (Christmas)

4. Has he been playing tennis for three hours? (tea time)

5. Has she been studying in London for a year? (neat June)

6. Has he been sleeping for eight hours? (breakfast time)

7. Have I been talking non-stop for an hour? (seven o’clock)

Ex. 112. Put the verbs into future perfect or future perfect continuous.

1. We _______________________(finish) this exercise by 8 o’clock.

2. We are late. The lesson __________________________________ (start) by now.

3. By the end of March he ____________________________(live) here for three years.

4. Young Billy is growing up. By this time next year he ____________________(begin) school.

5. They will be tired when they get there. They ___________________________ (travel) all day.

6. She _________________________ (have) lunch by the time we arrive.

7. They __________________________(build) the road by the end of the year.

8. I _________________________________ (spend) all my money by tomorrow.

9. We _____________________________ (fly) for twelve hours by the time the plane lands.

10. The play ____________________________ (begin) before we reach the theatre.

11. Before the end of the year they ______________________________(complete) the project.

12. I ______________________________________ (work) for this company non-stop for thirty

years by the end of October.