Pengertian Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect continuous tense adalah suatu bentuk kata kerja yang digunakan untuk
mengungkapkan bahwa suatu aksi akan sudah berlangsung selama sekian lama pada titik waktu
tertentu di masa depan.

Lihat juga:

 Present Perfect Continuous Tense

 Past Perfect Continuous Tense
 Future Continuous Tense
 Future Perfect Tense
 Progressive Aspect
 Perfect Aspect

Rumus Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect continuous tense dibentuk dengan auxiliary verb will, have, dan been dan
present participle.

Secara umum future perfect continuous tense hanya terjadi pada aksi berupa dynamic verb,
tidak stative verb karena umumnya hanya dynamic verb yang memiliki bentuk continuous.

Lihat juga:

 Stative Verb dengan Bentuk Progressive

Jenis Contoh Future Perfect Continuous

Rumus
Kalimat Tense
S + will + have been + V1-ing/present They will have been playing
positif (+)
participle The cat will have been sleeping long.
S + will + not + have been + V1-ing/present They will not have been playing
negatif (-)
participle The cat won’t have been sleeping
interogatif will + S + have been + V1-ing/present Will they have been playing
(?) participle Will the cat have been sleeping

Beberapa Fungsi dan Contoh Kalimat Future

Perfect Continuous Tense
 Contoh Kalimat Future
Fungsi Perfect Continuous
Tense
He will have been
studying in Cairo for a
year by the end of next
month.
(Dia akan telah belajar di
Kairo selama setahun
Future perfect continuous tense digunakan untuk membicarakan pada akhir bulan depan.)
tentang aksi yang panjang sebelum titik waktu tertentu di masa depan. Andra will have been
waiting for three months
Signals: when the corn is ready to
harvest.
For + duration (a month, a year, a week) dapat digunakan untuk (Andra akan telah
menyatakan durasi aksi yang panjang, sedangkan by the end of … menunggu selama tiga
(next month, next week, next year), when + clause (you arrive), before bulan ketika jagung siap
+ clause/noun (midnight, he comes) untuk membicarakan aksi di masa panen.)
depan yang terjadi ketika aksi future perfect continuous tense telah Will you have been
terjadi beberapa lama. writing the report before
the branch manager
observes?
(Kamu akan telah
menulis laporan sebelum
manager cabang
meninjau?)

Exercises:

 Soal Future Perfect Continuous Tense

 Soal Tenses

Semoga penjelasan materi future perfect continuous tense ini bermanfaat dan mohon maaf jika
ada kekurangan.

References:

1. Future Perfect Progressive

Tense. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/tenses/future_perfect_progressive.htm.
Accessed on February 22, 2013.
2. Grammar Handbook: Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms.
http://www.cws.illinois.edu/workshop/writers/perfectforms/. Accessed on February 22,
2013.
3. More Tenses. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/rules/moreT.htm. Accessed on February 22,
2013.