Special questions
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How long |
will you |
have been here by the end of the month? |
- (For) three weeks. | ||||||
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How much |
will you |
have saved by the end of the year? |
- About $500. | ||||||
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When |
will they |
have been married for ten years |
- At the end of the month | ||||||
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Object Questions | |||||||||
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What |
will you |
have done by that time? |
- My homework. | ||||||
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Who |
will they |
have met at the station by the time the train arrives? |
- A friend of theirs. | ||||||
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Subject Questions | |||||||||
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Who |
will |
have been here for a week by then? |
- The Browns. |
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Which cities |
will |
have doubled in size by the year 2010? |
Most capital cities. |
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Whose parents |
will |
have been married for forty years? |
Kate's. |
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Tag questions
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I |
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I? |
I |
will (not). |
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You |
you? |
you? | ||
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He/She/It |
he/she/it? - Yes, (No,) |
he/she/it | ||
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We |
we? |
we | ||
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You |
you? |
you | ||
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they? |
they | ||
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I |
won’t have finfshed by next week, will |
I |
I |
won’t/ (will). |
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You |
you? |
you | ||
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He/ She/It |
he/she/it? - No, (Yes,) |
he/she/it | ||
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We |
we? |
we | ||
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You |
you? |
you | ||
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They |
they? |
they |
ill
have done it by tonight, won’t
TheyNOTE:
a) will not (won't) is used with all persons (I, you, we, they, etc.);
b) shall not (shan't) is used instead of will not (won't) with I or we, but in everyday speech, will not (won't) is more common.
Exercise 26. Give the correct tag to these sentences. Ask special questions about the information in italics.
Example: They will have completed the project by the end of the month, won't they? What will they have completed by the end of the month?
1. He'll have finished this report by the end of the day.
2. Robots will have replaced people for many boring jobs.
3. At the end of next year, the Johnsons will have owned this shop for five years.
4. In a week's time, she won't have typed your documents.
5. Next July 10th, Mary's parents will have been married for thirty years.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense
The Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used instead of the Future Perfect
when the action is continuous
By the end of the month he will have been studying here for five years.
The Future Perfect Continuous is normally used with for to describe a period of time which precedes a point in the future.
We'll have been living here for three years in September.
NOTE: The Future Perfect Continuous is often used with verbs like learn, lie, live, rain, sit, wait and work to say that what is in progress now will be in progress in the future.
By this time next week, I will have been working on this book for a year.
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POSITIVE FORM |
By the end of this year he'll have been shooting films for thirty years. |
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NEGATIVE FORM |
By the end of this year he won't have been shooting films for forty years. |
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GENERAL QUESTION |
Will he have been shooting films for thirty years by the end of this year? - Yes, (No), he will (not). |
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ALTERNATIVE QUESTION |
Will he have been shooting films for thirty or forty years by the end of this year? - (For) thirty years. |
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SPECIAL QUESTION |
How long will he have been shooting films by the end of this year? - (For) thirty years. |
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SUBJECT QUESTION |
Who will have been shooting films for thirty years by the end of this year? - He will. |
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OBJECT QUESTION |
What will he have been shooting for thirty years by the end of this year? - Films. |
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TAG QUESTION |
By the end of this year he won't have been shooting films for forty years, will he? - No, he won't. By the end of this year he will have been shooting films for thirty years, won't he? - Yes, he will. |