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Simple Future Perfect Verb Tense Chart

What is the structure of the simple future perfect verb tense?

Subject

+

+

+

Main Verb

=

=

-

Will

-

have

-

Verb + -ed/V3-past participle

=

Building sentences with the simple future perfect verb tense.

  1. The future perfect verb tense uses 3 kinds of verbs, 2 auxiliary verbs and 1 main verb.
    - The auxiliary verb "will" does not changes according to the subject.
    - The auxiliary verb "have" always stays in the base form, and does not change form.
    -The main verb uses the past participle/V3 form.
    - Regular verbs -ed is add to the end of the verb's base form.
    - Irregular verbs use the past participle/V3.

  2. For negative sentences "not" is added between the auxiliary verb "Will" See chart.

  3. For questions the order of the sentence is changed. The auxiliary verb "will" comes first, then the subject. See chart.

Positive Sentences

Subject

+

Auxiliary Verb "Will"

+

Auxiliary Verb "have"

+

Main Verb

+

Continue the Sentence

I, We, They, You, He, She, It
Singular Nouns
Plural Nouns
Uncountable Nouns

+

will

 

have

+

V3 past participle

+

-

Examples:

  • On Sunday I have to work late. When I get home I will have eaten dinner.
  • The test is in a week from tomorrow, I hope you will have prepared for it.
  • Next week, we get our pay checks. We will have gotten paid, and we can go out to dinner.
  • Please deliver the package after 6 o'clock in the evening; I will have arrived home by then.
  • I will have taken all of my exams in a week from today.

Negative Sentences

Subject

+

Auxiliary Verb "Will"

+

Not

+

Auxiliary Verb "have"

+

Main Verb

+

Continue the Sentence

I, We, They, You, He, She, It
Singular Nouns
Plural Nouns

Uncountable Nouns

+

will

 

not

 

have

 

V3/past participle

 

 

Examples:

  • On Tuesday I will leave at eight o'clock in the morning, but will not have gotten to work in time for the meeting.
  • My sister is coming to visit next week. I will not have moved into my new house by then.
  • Next year I will not have seen my brother for 2 years.
  • In I few weeks, the plants will not have grown enough to pick the fruit.
  • Next month, I will not have worked long enough to get the bonus check.

Questions

Auxiliary Verb "Will"

+

Subject

+

+

Main Verb

+

Continue the Sentence

Will

+

I, we, they, you, he, she, it
singular nouns
plural nouns

uncountable nouns

+

have

+

V3/past participle

 

 

Examples:

  • Will I have worked here long enough to get a bonus check?
  • Will you have saved enough money to come see me next year?
  • Will the car have been fixed, by the time I come home from work?
  • Will the train have arrived, by the time the time I finish work?
  • Will the children have gone to sleep, when I call tonight?