Future perfect continuous tense

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Future perfect continuous tense:  

Definition: ভবিষ্যতে কোন কাজ শুরু হয়ে একটি নির্দিষ্ট সময় ধরে চলবে বুঝালে তাকে Future perfect continuous Tense বলে।

Choose the correct tense.
By November, we’ll ____ here for five years.

 live  
 have been living    
 be living    

Future perfect continuous                                                                                                                                                       

  Use:

• Use the future perfect continuous to talk about an event that will be in progress for some time before a specified time in the future.

Janet will be really tired when we get home. She will have been looking after the children all day!

• It can be used to make predictions about event that will be in progress before a specified time in the future.

Joe won’t mind that we are late. He won’t have been waiting long.

• It can be used to predict what was happening in the past.

“What do you think the men were doing in the store room?”
“Don’t worry. They will have been unpacking boxes.”    

• Both the fixed future time and the length of time of are often mentioned in future perfect continuous sentences.

By the end of this week, I’ll have been working here for five months.
Fixed future time:           the end of this week
Length of time:                 five months

But this is not always the case.
Anne will be in a bad mood at the party this evening because she’ll have been doing housework.

Form:
Positive and Negative: Subject + shall have / will have / shan’t have / won’t have + been + verb+ ing+(Extension).

 

I  we	Shall have/ shan’t have	been	Verb+ing
you he / she / it / they	Will have/won’t have

Example: I shall have been playing football.

               They won’t have been digging the pond. 

Questions: Shall / will  / shan’t / won’t + subject+ have+ been+Verb+ ing+ (Extention)?

Shall / shan’t	I / we	have	been	Verb+ing?
Will / won’t	you he / she / it / they

 

Example: Will you have been playing cricket?