Month: November 2021

The future tenses are used to describe most situations and events taking place in the future. They express both planned and unplanned events, predictions, spontaneous decisions or other events in the future and are generally divided into four basic tenses: Future simple Future continuous Future perfect Future perfect continuous Each tense uses different grammatical phenomena… Continue reading Future Tenses

The future perfect continuous expresses the duration of activities that extend until a certain point in time in the future. While this tense is hardly ever used in spoken English, it is still useful to know and understand it.

For a basic understanding of how this tense works, you need to be familiar with two very similar tenses: the past perfect continuous and the present perfect continuous. Both of these tenses are formed in the same way as the future perfect continuous tense.

​The future perfect tense is used to describe events in the future. Despite the fact that this tense is hardly used in ordinary conversation, it is still necessary to know it.

The future perfect tense is very similar to the past perfect and present perfect tenses and is formed with the same principle. It is used most often in written speech and formal reports – we don’t come across it much in speech.

The future progressive/future continuous tense expresses events taking place in the future and is especially used for events that have a duration.

This tense is very similar to the other progressive tenses which also use the progressive aspect with the suffix -ing. Although this tense is not used very often in English, it is still useful to know.