Pengertian Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Future perfect continuous tense adalah bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk mengungkapkan bahwa suatu aksi akan sudah berlangsung selama sekian lama pada titik waktu tertentu di masa depan.
1. Rumus Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Future perfect continuous tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb will, have, dan been dan present participle.
Secara umum tense ini hanya untuk aksi berupa dynamic atau action verb, tidak stative verb karena umumnya hanya dynamic verb yang memiliki bentuk continuous.
Verbal : menunjukkan kejadian yang dilakukan si subject
| Rumus Future Perfect Continuous Tense | Contoh Future Perfect Continuous Tense |
| kalimat positif (+) S + will + have been + -ing/present participle | They will have been playing The cat will have been sleeping long. |
| kalimat negatif (-) S + will + not + have been + -ing/present participle | They will not have been playing The cat won’t have been sleeping |
| kalimat interogatif (+) will + S + have been + -ing/present participle | Will they have been playing? Will the cat have been sleeping? |
Non Verbal : menunjukkan keadaan si subject
| Bentuk kalimat | Rumus |
| kalimat positif (+) | Subj + will + have + been + adjective/adverb/noun/pronoun |
| kalimat negatif (-) | Subj + will + have + not + been + adjective/adverb/noun/pronoun |
| kalimat interogatif (?) | will + Subj + have + been + adjective/adverb/noun/pronoun ? |
2. Subject verb agreement
| Subject | Verb | verb |
| She | Will | |
| He | Will | |
| It | Will | |
| Benda tunggal (singular noun ) – Upin – Student – Mouse | Will | |
| I | Will | Shall |
| You | Will | |
| They | Will | |
| We | Will | shall |
| Benda jama (plural noun ) – Upin and Ipin – StudentS – Mice | Will |
3. Time Expressions pada Future perfect Tense
Berikut beberapa time expression (keterangan waktu) yang dapat digunakan pada future perfect tense.
| No | Time | Contoh |
| 1 | before, when (future perfect tense + before/when + simple present tense) | tomorrow morning (besok pagi) next summer (musim panas selanjutnya) at 10 p.m. tomorrow (pada pukul 10 malam besok) this time tomorrow (pada saat ini esok hari) |
| 2 | By + present / future time | by next Sunday (tidak melebihi Minggu depan) |
| 3 | By + this time + present / future time By + the end of + present / future time untuk membicarakan aksi di masa depan yang terjadi ketika aksi future perfect continuous tense telah terjadi beberapa lama. | by this time next week/month (selambat-lambatnya waktu yang sama pada saat ini di minggu/bulan depan) |
| 4 | By + time | by 9 o’clock (tidak melebihi pukul 9) |
| 5 | In + time | in 3 years time (dalam waktu tiga tahun) |
| 6 | 0n + time | on the 15th of May (pada tanggal 15 bulan Mei) |
| 7 | For + duration (a month, a year, a week) dapat digunakan untuk menyatakan durasi aksi yang panjang | For a week (selama satu minggu) |
4. Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat
Future perfect continuous tense digunakan untuk membicarakan tentang aksi yang panjang sebelum titik waktu tertentu di masa depan.
Contoh :
| 1 | He will have been studying in Cairo for a year by the end of next month. (Dia akan telah belajar di Kairo selama setahun pada akhir bulan depan.) |
| 2 | Andra will have been waiting for three months when the corn is ready to harvest. (Andra akan telah menunggu selama tiga bulan ketika jagung siap panen.) |
| 3 | Will you have been writing the report before the branch manager observes? (Kamu akan telah menulis laporan sebelum manager cabang meninjau?) |