ГРАММАТИКА ЭКЗАМЕН / 2 THE FUTURE (PERFECT) CONTINUOUS

THE FUTURE CONTINUOUS

FORMATION

Affirmative				Negative				Interrogative
I You He She It We You They	will/shall be will be will/shall be will be	working	I You He She It We You They		will/shall not be will not be will/shall not be will not be	working	Shall/will Will Shall/will Will		I you he she it we you they	be working?

The Future Continuous is formed with the Future Indefinite of the auxiliary verb to be + the Present Participle (the Infinitive + ing).

The negative is formed by putting not after the auxiliary verb to be + the Present Participle.

The interrogative is formed by inverting subject and the auxiliary verb to be + the Present Participle.

USAGE

The Future Continuous is used to denote:

1. actions in progress at a given future time: At 10 o'clock tomorrow Simon will be working in the garden.

2. actions which are the result of a routine (instead of the Present Continuous): I'll be seeing John tomorrow. (We work in the same office so we'll definitely meet.)

3. polite enquiries, when we wish to know what somebody's plans are: Will you be coming with me to the concert tonight?

Note: Use the Present Continuous instead of the Future Continuous after while: We'll be playing basketball, while they are playing football

The following time expressions can be used with the Future Continuous: tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next week/ month/ year, in some days, soon, in a week/ month, in an hour, in half an hour, from…to…, etc.

THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS

FORMATION

Affirmative		Negative				Interrogative
I You He She It We You They	shall/will have been working will have been working shall/will have been working will have been working	I You He She It We You They	shall/will not have will not have shall/will not have will not have	been working	Shall/will Will Shall/will Will		I you he she it we you they	have been working?

The Future Perfect Continuous is formed with the auxiliary to be in the Future Perfect + the Present Participle: I will have been working for two hours when my friends come to see me.

The negative is formed by adding not to the auxiliary to be in the Future Perfect + the Present Participle.

The interrogative is formed by inverting the auxiliary to be in the Future Perfect and the subject + the Present Participle.

The Future Perfect Continuous is used to indicate an action which will begin before a definite moment of the future time and will continue up to this moment.

The Future Perfect Continuous is used to denote a continuous action which will begin before a certain moment in the future and which will have been in progress for some time in the future including this certain moment. This certain moment in the future is usually indicated with the preposition by: You will have been discussing the plan for half an hour by the time I get there.

The following time expressions can be used with the Future Perfect Continuous: since, for.