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Future Perfect Continuous · Exercises

C1Advanced practice

Milestones, causes and subtle simple vs. continuous choices.

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What you’ll practise at C1

  • Negatives: won’t have been
  • Questions: Will you have been…?
  • How long…? and for / since
  • by the time / when + present simple
  • will have been doing or will have done?
  • will have been doing or will be doing?
  • Assumptions: She’ll have been driving all night
  • Causes: tired because he’ll have been working
  • Milestones: 40 years by the time she retires
  • Timelines: what the tense means

Need a refresher? Learn the future perfect continuous: rules, tables and audio examples.

Sample exercises

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  1. Complete the explanation.

    My aunt will have a headache when she gets home because she _____ (stare) at a screen all day.

    will be been staring · will have been stared · will has been staring · will have been staring

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    My aunt will have a headache when she gets home because she will have been staring at a screen all day.

    Use will have been + -ing to explain a future situation with the activity that will have caused it.

  2. Write the verb in the future perfect continuous.

    Mateo _____ (shout) at the match, so he will have no voice left.

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    Mateo will have been shouting at the match, so he will have no voice left.

    will have been + -ing can also mean you’re sure about an activity that has been going on: She’ll have been driving all night (I’m sure she has).

  3. Which timeline shows this sentence?

    I will have been working in a café.

    Going on up to a moment in the future · At a time in the future · Finished by a moment in the future · In progress at a moment in the future

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    I will have been working in a café.

    “will have been working” is the future perfect continuous (will have been + -ing): going on up to a moment in the future.

  4. Complete the assumption.

    Aisha _____ (train) all morning, so she will be starving.

    will have been training · will have been trained · will have being training · will has been training

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    Aisha will have been training all morning, so she will be starving.

    will have been + -ing can also mean you’re sure about an activity that has been going on: She’ll have been driving all night (I’m sure she has).

  5. Choose the correct form.

    Ines _____ (study) medicine for six years by the time she graduates.

    will had been studying · will have been studying · has been studying · will have been studied

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    Ines will have been studying medicine for six years by the time she graduates.

    Milestones and anniversaries: will have been + -ing + for + the total time, up to a future moment.

  6. Choose the correct form.

    My friends _____ (travel) for thirty hours by the time they land in Sydney.

    will had been travelling · will have been travelling · have been travelling · will be travelling

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    My friends will have been travelling for thirty hours by the time they land in Sydney.

    Milestones and anniversaries: will have been + -ing + for + the total time, up to a future moment.