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Future Perfect Tense

When to Use Future Perfect Tense

Expressing action in the future before another action in the future. This is the past in the future.

  • The train will leave the station at 9am. You will arrive at the station at 9.15am. When you arrive, the train will have left.
  • You can call me at work at 8am. I will have arrived at the office by 8.

The action or event will be finished at some point in the future (Instead of your viewpoint being in the present, it is in the future)

  • He will have finished by 8 p.m.
  • The man will have written the report by Monday.