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§ 35. The use of the Future Perfect Continuous.

The Future Perfect Continuous denotes an action which will begin before a definite moment in the future, will continue up to that moment and will be going on at that moment.

We shall have been working at this problem for a month when you visit us a second time.

THE FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS IN THE PAST

§ 36. The formation of the Future Perfect Continuous in the Past.

  1. The Future Perfect Continuous in the Past is formed by means of the Future Perfect in the Past of the auxiliary verb to be and Participle I of the notional verb.

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  1. In the interrogative form the first auxiliary verb is placed before the subject.

In the negative form the negative particle not is placed after the first auxiliary verb.

Affirmative Interrogative

I should have been working Should I have been working?

He would have been working Would he have been working?

She would have been working Would she have been working?

We should have been working Should we have been working?

You would have been working Would you have been working?

They would have been working Would they have been working?

Negative

I should not have been working He would not have been working She would not have been working We should not have been working You would not have been working They would not have been working

  1. The contracted affirmative forms are:

I’d have been working He’d have been working

The contracted negative forms are:

I shouldn’t have been working He wouldn’t have been working

  1. The negative-interrogative forms are:

( Should I not have been working?

\ Shouldn’t I have been working?

( Would he not have been working?

\ Wouldn’t he have been working?

§ 37. The use of the Future Perfect Continuous in the Past.

The Future Perfect Continuous in the Past denotes an action lasting during a certain period of time before a definite moment which was future from the point of view of the past.

I wondered how long they would have been packing by the time I returned.

(For detailed treatment see Chapter XVIII.)

Present

Past

Future

Future in the Past

lildi-ft-

flltc

I go to the theatre every week.

I went to the

theatre last week.

I shall go to

the theatre next week.

I said I should go to the theatre next week.

( oiiti-

nuoiis

(Don’t speak to him.) He is work­ing.

When I came, he was work­ing.

(Don’t come at 8.) I shall be working.

He said he would be working at 8 o’clock.

Per feet

  1. (I can return the books to the library.) I have read them.

  2. I have known

him for two years.

  1. I had read

all the books by the 1st of April.

  1. By 1955 I had known

him for two years.

  1. I shall have read all the

books by the 1st of April.

  1. By 1965 I shall have known hinn for twelve years.

I said I should have read all the

books by the 1st of April.

Perfect

Conti­

nuous

  1. I have been reading the

book for a week.

  1. (I am very tired.) I have been ' reading

a lot.

  1. I had been reading , the

book for a week, when you asked me for it.

  1. (I was very tired.) I had been read­ing a lot.

By the 1st of May I shall have been reading the

book for a fort­night.

I said that by the 1st of May I should have been reading the book for a fortnight.

THE PASSIVE VOICE