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The composite future, also called perfect future, in English it is used to talk about actions that will be completed in the future.
When is it used? It can be used both for actions that have already started in the present and for actions that will begin in the future.
For example:
- Action that started in the present: I am preparing dinner. I will have finished by eight. / I'm making dinner, I'll be done by eight.
- Action not started yet: He will start studying next year. By the time he’s twenty five he will have finished. / Will start studying next year. By the time I am twenty-five it will be over.
Positive sentence structure
Subject + will + have (never have) + verb in past participle + complement
I will have finished this job by tomorrow. / I will have finished this job by tomorrow.
Negative sentence structure
Subject + will not / won’t + have (never have) + verb in past participle + complement
I will not have finished this job by tomorrow. / I won't have this job done by tomorrow.
Structure of the interrogations
Will + subject + have (never have) + verb in past participle + complement +?
Will I have finished this job by tomorrow? / Will I have finished this job by tomorrow?
Examples of future compound in English
- I will have gone to the pharmacy by the time you arrive. / I'll have gone to the pharmacy by the time you get there.
- I have will be graduated by the time he’s twenty five. / You will be graduated by the time you are twenty-five years old.
- They will have left by tomorrow. / They will be gone by tomorrow.
- The cake will have cooled by then. / The cake will have cooled by then.
- I have will have solved the crime by the end of the episode. / By the end of the episode he will have solved the crime.
- Will you have finished the book by Monday? / Will you have finished the book by Monday?
- I have will have understood. / He will have understood.
- In a few years he will have forgotten everything that happened today. / In a few years he will have forgotten everything that happened today.
- By this time next year you will have visited every important monument in the city. / By this time next year you will have visited every important monument in the city.
- With this rain I will have caught a cold by the time I get home. / With this rain I will have a cold by the time I get home.
- By the end of the date she will have imagined their whole lives together. / By the end of the date she will have imagined their lives together.
- Come back on Monday and the place will have been cleaned. / Come back on Monday and the place will have been cleaned.
- On June we will have lived in this house for three years. / In June we will have lived in this house for three years.
- The cold will have kept them fresh. / The cold will have kept them fresh.
- Come over, we will have cooked something delicious. / Come visit us, we will have prepared something delicious.
- By tomorrow we will have thought of a solution. / For tomorrow we will have thought of a solution.
- Will you have returned by the time I wake up? / Will you have returned when I wake up?
- My father will have taken care of it. / My father will have taken care of that.
- She will not have arrived before we leave. / She won't have arrived before we leave.
- They will have woken by noon. / They will have woken up by noon.
- They will have looted the town. / They will have looted the town.
- I will have explained everything. / I will have explained everything.
- By nighttime it will have stopped raining. / By the night it will have stopped raining.
- I have will have planned everything. / You will have planned everything.
- They will have ruined the surprised. / They will have ruined the surprise.
- I have will have thought of another excuse. / He may have thought of another excuse.
- They will have taken the opportunity. / They will have seized the opportunity.
- Next time you see him he will have reconsidered his position. / The next time you see him he will have reconsidered his position.
- I will not have forgotten you. / I will not have forgotten you.
- Item will have been stolen by then. / It will have been stolen by then.
It can serve you: Examples of Simple Future in English
The past participle and irregular verbs
The past participle in regular verbs is formed by adding the ending -ed to the verb.
Example:
- Work: worked.
- Washed: washed.
- Like: liked.
However, the irregular verbs they have other past participle forms.
Irregular verbs and their past participle
- Arise, arisen: arise.
- Awake, awoken: wake up.
- Be, been: to be
- Become, become: become
- Begin, begun: begin
- Blow, blown: blow
- Bite, bitten: bite
- Bleed, bled: bleed
- Break, broken: break / break
- Bring, brought: bring / carry with you
- Buy, bought: buy
- Can, has no past participle: power
- Eat, eat: come.
- Do, done: do
- Drive, driven: drive
- Eat, eaten: eat
- Forbid, forbidden: forbid
- Forget, forgotten: forget
- Get, gotten: get
- Give, given: give
- Have / has, had, had: have / have
- Hit, hit: hit
- Learn, learned: learn
- Leave, left: abandon / leave / exit
- Make, made
- Run, run: run
- Say, said: say
- See, seen: see
- Sit, sat: sit
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