Future Perfect

The Future Perfect образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to have в будущем времени (shall have, will have) и формы причастия прошедшего времени (Past Participle) смыслового глагола: I shall have worked, he will have done.

В вопросительной форме первый вспомогательный глагол ставится перед подлежащим: Shall I have worked? Will he have worked?

В отрицательной форме частица not ставится после первого вспомогательного глагола: I’ll not have worked.

The Future Perfect употребляется сравнительно редко, эта форма употребляется в тех случаях, когда нужно показать, что речь идет о будущем действии, которое должно заканчиваться до наступления другого будущего действия или до определенного момента в будущем. Момент, до которого совершается действие, может быть указан:

1. Обозначением времени, таким как by 5 o’clock - к пяти часам, by Saturday - к субботе, by the end of the year - к концу года, by that time - к тому времени и т.п.

We’ll have translated the article Мы (уже) переведем статью к субботе.

by Saturday.

Students will have finished their Студенты закончат учебу к 20

study by 20 December. декабря.

2. Другим будущим действием, выраженным глаголом в Present Simple, в придаточных предложениях времени и условия:

The train will have left by the time Поезд уже уйдет к тому времени, как

we get to the station. мы приедем на вокзал.

I’ll have finished this work if you Я уже закончу эту работу, если ты

come at 7 o’clock. придешь в 7 часов.

The Future Perfect не употребляется в придаточных предложениях времени и условия. В этих случаях вместо Future Perfect употребляется Present Simple или Present Perfect:

We’ll send them the documents Мы пошлем им документы, после

after we have received the goods. того как получим товары.

Exercise 1. Paul wants to be an artist. He’s reading about a famous artist called Winston Plummer:

Winston Plummer was a great artist, who had a wonderful career. He won lots of prizes before he was twenty. By the age of twenty-five he had had his own exhibition. He was the subject of a TV documentary by the time he was thirty. By the age of thirty-five he had become world-famous. He made millions of pounds from his pictures before he was forty.

Paul is daydreaming about his own future career. What does he think?

I hope I’ll have won lots of prizes before I’m twenty.

1. Perhaps ……………………… my own exhibition by the age of twenty-five.

2. I wonder if …………………………………………… by the time I’m thirty.

3. Maybe …………………………………..…………. by the age of thirty-five.

4. I hope ………………………………………...…………. by the age of forty.

Exercise 2. How good is your maths? Can you work out the answers?

It’s quarter to six. Melanie is putting something in the oven.

It needs to be in the oven for an hour and half. When will it have cooked?

It will have cooked at quarter past seven.

1. It’s seven o’clock in the evening, and Andrew is starting to write an essay. He writes one page every fifteen minutes. He plans to finish the essay at midnight. How many pages will he have written? He will have written ………………………… pages.

2. It’s Monday morning, and Sarah is travelling to work. It’s twenty miles from her home to the office. How far will she have traveled to and from work by the time she gets home on Friday?

3. Matthew is doing press-ups-one every two seconds. How many will he have done after five minutes?

Exercise 3. Put the verb into the correct from, will be (do)ing:

1. Phone me after 8 o’clock. …………………….. (we/finish) dinner by then.

2. B has to go to a meeting which begins at 10 o’clock. It will last about an hour.

A: Will you be free at 11.30?

B: Yes, (the meeting/finish) by that time.

3. Tom is on holiday and he is spending his money very quickly. If he continues like this, ………… (he/spend) all his money before the end of his holiday.

4. Jane is from New Zealand. She is traveling around Europe at the moment. So far she has traveled about 1, 000 miles. By the end of the trip, ……………………………… (she/travel) more than 3, 000 moles.

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