Future continuous and future perfect

Do you know how to use phrases like I'll be working or I'll have completed? Enhance your knowledge with a lesson given below and the grammar explanation to guide you better.

Look at these examples to see how the future continuous and future perfect are used:

• By this time next year, I'll be working at a new job.

• In two years, I'll have completed my degree.

Grammar explanation - Future continuous and future perfect

1. Future continuous

We use the future continuous (will/won't be + -ing form) to talk about future actions that:

Will be in progress at a specific time in the future:

• When you arrive tomorrow evening, I'll be driving home.

• Try to reach me before noon. After that, I'll be attending a meeting.

• You can stop by next weekend. I won’t be traveling then.

Are seen as new, different, or temporary:

• We’re using the car today, but next week we’ll be cycling to work.

• He’ll be staying in a hotel for a few weeks while his house is being renovated.

• Will you be commuting from a new location when you start the new job?

2. Future perfect

We use the future perfect simple (will/won't have + past participle) to describe something that will be completed before a specific time in the future.

• The show starts at 7 p.m. I’ll have finished my homework by then.

• By June, they will have lived here for 10 years.

• Will you have completed your tasks by the time I return?

We often use phrases like by or by the time (meaning 'at some point before') and in or in a day's time/in two months' time/in five years' time (meaning 'at the end of this period') to indicate when the action will be completed.

• I won’t have finished the project by next Tuesday.

• By the time we get there, they’ll have already eaten.

• I’ll have wrapped up the meeting in about an hour, and then we can talk.

• In two years' time, I'll have completed my training program.

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