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The Future Perfect

The Future Perfect

We use the future perfect to refer to an action in the future. For example an event that has not happened yet but will happen before a certain time in the future. We often use the future perfect with by + time expression (e.g. by the end of June; by 2010; the end of the year / before Monday; in ten years time ...)
                              Now                  finish study     end of June
--------------------------*-------------------------*--------------*------------------------                         

Example: By the end of June we will have finished high school studies.
                                         Subject + will + have +past participle

Examples:
  • My father is setting up his first business after retiring. He will have completed his mission by the end of this year.
  • By the end of the second decade, Moroccan big cities will have been linked by highway.
  • By the end of 2010, the world population will have grown substantially.

Exercice. Put the verbs between brackets in the correct form.
  1. Next week, that football player (play).........................................with the national team for six years.
  2. By 2020, our population (increase) ........................... enormously.
  3. By the beginning of June, my father (return) ..................... to France.
  4. Scientists (possibly/develop) .................. a new vaccine for AIDS in ten years time.


Answers: 1- will have played 2- will have increased 3- will have returned 4- will have possibly developed

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