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Read and understand the following explanations on usage of Future Perfect tense and then examine illustrative examples from Classics.
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- When To Use Past Perfect Tense
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Past Perfect (When to Use) In this page we examine the Past Perfect Tense in a detail: what it actually means and how it is used. Some illustrative extracts from English literature are given below. Past Perfect expresses...
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Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Going to Usage Another way of expressing a future action is the construction "to be going to + infinitive". It is mainly found with dynamic verbs; it is characterized by the following additional modal meanings:...
- Using Future Indefinite Tense Through Dialogues
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Using Future Indefinite This page shows different ways of using the Future Indefinite Tense (or Simple Future) through dialogues from English literature. The Future Indefinite expresses an action that will take place...
- Future Perfect Worksheets
Free worksheets for practising Future Perfect Tense. Exercise 1. Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in future perfect tense. Exercise includes both regular and irregular verbs. I ---- ---- ---- (to finish) my work...
- The Perfect Tenses
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Grammar
Future Perfect How to Use
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → How to Use Past Perfect
Read and understand the following explanations on usage of Future Perfect tense and then examine illustrative examples from Classics.
1. The Future Perfect expresses an action accomplished before a given future moment. The given future moment is usually expressed by adverbial phrases, clauses of time or understood from the situation (see dialogues 1, 2, 3).
►Note: In adverbial clauses of time introduced by the conjunctions when, before, after, as soon as, till and until the Present Perfect is found to express a future action. It shows that the action of the subordinate clause will be accomplished before the action of the principal clause (which is usually expressed by the Future Indefinite) (dialogues 4, 5).
2. The Future Perfect is very occasionally used to express an action which begins before a given future moment and continues into it. This use is found with stative verbs (dialogue 6).
►Note: In adverbial clauses of time introduced by the conjunctions when, before, after, as soon as, till and until the Present Perfect is found to express a future action. It shows that the action of the subordinate clause will be accomplished before the action of the principal clause (which is usually expressed by the Future Indefinite) (dialogues 4, 5).
2. The Future Perfect is very occasionally used to express an action which begins before a given future moment and continues into it. This use is found with stative verbs (dialogue 6).
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- When To Use Past Perfect Tense
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Past Perfect (When to Use) In this page we examine the Past Perfect Tense in a detail: what it actually means and how it is used. Some illustrative extracts from English literature are given below. Past Perfect expresses...
- Going To Usage And Illustrative Examples
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Going to Usage Another way of expressing a future action is the construction "to be going to + infinitive". It is mainly found with dynamic verbs; it is characterized by the following additional modal meanings:...
- Using Future Indefinite Tense Through Dialogues
Contents → Grammar in Dialogues → Using Future Indefinite This page shows different ways of using the Future Indefinite Tense (or Simple Future) through dialogues from English literature. The Future Indefinite expresses an action that will take place...
- Future Perfect Worksheets
Free worksheets for practising Future Perfect Tense. Exercise 1. Fill in the spaces with the correct form of the verb in parentheses in future perfect tense. Exercise includes both regular and irregular verbs. I ---- ---- ---- (to finish) my work...
- The Perfect Tenses
The Perfect Tenses: grammar rules, examples and when to use. present perfect past perfect future perfect The Present Perfect The Formation of the Present Perfectauxiliary verb to have (have/has) + Participle II (the present tense of the verb...