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Today, we have a lot of work to do.
   Everyone is working hard to complete it.

Future Perfect

Making  predictions

 

 

 

Prediction 
INTENT A PREDICTION OF COMPLETION

Use will to express determination to do something (volition). In the negative form, intent becomes is refusal. Using will for intent indicates the person will take action to cause something to happen.

Use will have to indicate that something is scheduled or predicted to be completed before X time. Using will have for scheduled events indicates the event will happen as a matter of course.

Tomorrow, we will finish this project.  (We are determined to do so.)

By tomorrow, we will have finished our project. (We predict we will be done.)

Tomorrow evening, we will present our project to our clients.  
 

By evening, our clients will have seen our work.

clients (n.) – people or customers who request a service

 

 

Future Perfect Expressions
BY THE TIME IF

X will already be done when (by the time) Y happens

X will already be done if Y happens

We will have left the office by the time you arrive.

We will have left the office If you arrive after 5 p.m.  (future hypothetical)

we will have invented more efficient cars by the year 2011.

You would have found us goneif you had come late. (hypothetical situation in the past that did not happen - imaginary.)

Related page: By the time 

 

 

Adverbs
FUTURE FUTURE PERFECT

Future tense uses adverbs of time with indefinite or exact  times in the future.

Future perfect uses adverbs with exact times in the future – the ending time at which the action will be completed.

  • tomorrow
  • tonight
  • next week
  • next Saturday
  • next month
  • by the time
  • by tomorrow
  • by this time next week
  • by the year 2020
  • (adverbs indicating a completion date)
     

 

 

Subject – Verb Agreement
SINGULAR PLURAL

will have + participle    (not  has)

will have + participle 

By tomorrow, I will have finished my book.
By tomorrow, he will have finished his book.
By tomorrow, she will have finished her book.
 

By tomorrow, we will have finished our books.
By tomorrow, they will have finished their books.


Related page:   Participle Review

 

 

 

 

smart vs. stupid carPractice 1

Future Predictions

 

 

  1. Select the best answer to complete the sentence.
  2. * indicates an incorrect answer.
# MODAL SENTENCE   YOUR RESPONSE
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"Baby boomers" = generation born from 1945-1955. Retirement age is 65.


 


 
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baby sleepingPractice 2

Raising a Baby

 

 

Baby Center. Milestone Chart. 2008. <http://www.babycenter.com/>
MSN. The Cost of Raising Kids. 2008. <http://moneycentral.msn.com/articles/family/kids/tlkidscost.asp>

 

 

Select the verb tense that goes with the context of the sentence.
 
# YOUR RESPONSE FEEDBACK
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9. his ability and speak in sentences.
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11. the doctor an average of 60 times!
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16.   (Estimated amount is for a child raised in a suburb of a large U.S. cit.y)