grammar · academic
will have been + V-ing
Future perfect continuous: an action that will be in progress up to a specific time in the future or will have been happening for a duration by that time.
Examples
“By next July, I will have been teaching here for six years.”
“By the time you arrive, they will have been rehearsing for three hours.”
“In two hours' time I'll have been waiting for you for half a day.”
Band 8 sentence
“By the end of the year, the research team will have been conducting fieldwork for over eighteen months, so they can finally start analysing the data.”
Collocations
- by + time
- for + duration
- by the time + clause
Common mistakes
I will be working here for ten years by 2025.→I will have been working here for ten years by 2025.
By then she will be working here since 2018.→By then she will have been working here since 2018.
Say it for a higher band
5will + V→6will be + V-ing→7+will have been + V-ing
Synonyms
future perfect progressive
Easily confused
will have + past participle
“By noon she will have finished the report.”
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