Future Perfect Progressive Practice

Part 1: Match the clause or phrase on the left with a clause on the right to make a complete sentence. Though more than one option may be grammatically possible, choose the MOST LOGICAL and fitting ending for each beginning. Write the number of the part on the left next to its match. The first one is done for you.

Beginning of Sentence	End of Sentence
1. By the time the store closes,…	…I will have been eating all day at the fair.	6
2. By the time Joe finishes his homework,…	…because they will have just finished the test.	5
3. When we finally arrive in San Francisco,…	..she will have been working all day, and I’m sure she’ll be tired.	9
4. The children will have been playing all day in the hot sun by then,…	…we will have been shopping for three hours.	1
5. The students won’t have been talking much at that point…	…by the end of Friday?	7
6. I don’t think I will want to go out to dinner because…	…we will have been talking on the phone for exactly two hours.	10
7. Won’t Brad have been conducting interviews for an entire week…	...she will have been traveling for three weeks!	8
8. By the time Marla finishes her cross-country trip next Tuesday,…	...he will have been sitting at his desk for three hours.	2
9. Don’t expect Emily to go to your party on Saturday because…	…so they will probably be ready for a nap.	4
10. If I hang up in twenty seconds,…	…we will have been driving for the entire day.	3

Part 2: Use the verb in parenthesis to complete the sentence. Use it in the future perfect progressive tense.

1. (sightsee) By the time the sun sets, we will have been sightseeing all day long.

2. (fly) By the passengers arrive in Europe, they will have been flying for almost twenty hours.

3. (listen) The trial isn’t over yet! By the end of today, the jury

will have been listening to testimony for almost a month!

4. (lie) I hope I don’t get sunburned. By the time Miguel returns with those cold drinks, I

will have been lying on this beach for a couple of hours.

Part 3: Are the following sentences grammatically correct? If any part of the sentence is incorrect, write “incorrect” and fix it. If the entire sentence is grammatically correct, write “correct.”

1. By the time we arrive in New York, we will have been driving for three days.

2. When my brother’s plane finally gets here, I will have been waiting for him at the airport for an hour.

3. Tamy will have been teaching at the university for eight years by the time she receives her promotion.

4. When this course ends, how long you will have been living in the U.S.?

5. We will be hungry after the gym because we will have been exercising for over two hours.

6. Until Angela will have been living in these apartments for a year, she can’t break her lease.

7. Madison will have been having her license for two years by her birthday.

8. How long will Leslie have been working at the company by the time she resigns?

9. Sam won’t want to do anything that requires thinking when we see him because he will have been studying all day in the library.

10. By the time you reach your goal of mastering English, you will have been working tirelessly for many years.