3. The Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Утвердительная форма

Подлеж. shall will been have

Ving

О

have

been

V_ing

shall

will

трицательная форма

Подлеж.

not

Вопросительная форма

have

Подлеж.

been

V_ing

Shall

Will

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Употребляется для выражения длительного будущего действия, которое начнется ранее другого будущего действия и будет еще совершаться в момент его наступления. Употребляется, когда указан период времени, в течение которого действие будет совершаться.

He will have been writing the letter for an hour when she comes.

Он будет писать письмо (уже) час, когда она придет.

Exercises

I. Put the verbs into the Perfect Continuous Tenses, using “for ten minutes, for two hours”, ect. ...

1. I (to rinse, to wait for; to heal; to carry on; to keep)

2. He (to operate; to apply; to put in; to remove; to examine)

3. You (to gargle; to moan; to transfuse; to cleanse; to suffer from)

4. They (to treat; to rub in; to radiate; to complain of; to sterilize)

II. Translate into Russian

1. The wound has been healing for 3 weeks.

2. The pain has been radiating to the left shoulder since morning.

3. Dr. Smirnov has been operating on for the heart for 2 hours.

4. I had been gargling my throat for some minutes before the nurse gave me the tablets.

5. The patient had been moaning since morning before he was operated on.

6. We have been waiting for Dr. Ivanov since 8 o’clock.

7. John has been keeping a thermometer in his armpit for 2 minutes.

8. Dr. Ivanov has been carrying on his medical examination since morning.

9. He had been complaining of a bad headache for an hour before we gave him a tablet.

10. I shall have been examining the patients for an hour before you come.

11. By the end of the month she will have been working at this hospital for five years.

III. Answer the questions

1. Since when have you been studying at the Gomel Medical University?

2. How long have you been learning English?

3. How long has this patient been complaining of nausea?

4. Since when have you been friendly with your friend?

5. How long has the child been suffering from lobar pneumonia?

6. How long has the surgeon been operating on this patient?

7. How long had you been doing your homework before you went to bed?

8. How long had the nurse been cleansing the wound before the doctor entered the room?

9. How long had Dr. Ivanov been treating this patient for angina pectoris before the patient recovered?

10. Since when have you been working at this hospital?

IV. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative.

1. My friend has been following his diet since his last visit to the doctor.

2. They had been working for three hours before they decided to have a meal.

3. They have been talking about infectious diseases since the beginning of the lecture.

4. It had been raining for two hours when I left home.

5. She has been living in Minsk since 1974.

6. We shall have been examining the patients for an hour before you come.

7. By the end of the year he will have been teaching English for twenty years.