Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar has been prepared for learning English Grammar of Class 5 under CBSE, ICSE, and Other State boards as Lesson No 23. Class 5 students in their English Grammar learning process will get help from the Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar to achieve better speaking and writing skills in English.
This Lesson 23, Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar contains – What Future Perfect Continuous Tense is? and Future Perfect Continuous Tense Formula, Uses, with a practice worksheet at the end for better knowledge for class 5.
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Example & Definition: Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar
- By next July we shall have been living here for three years.
- I shall have been doing the work before Father comes.
- He will have been studying for four years at Oxford when he gets his degree.
All the above-highlighted words indicate actions that will be in progress over a period of time that will end in the future.
When the action of the verbs indicates an action that is in progress for a certain period of time and will be finished in the future, or one of the two actions in the future that will be continuing earlier, will be in Future Perfect Continuous Tense and the later action will be in Simple Present tense or Future Indefinite.
Formula: Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar
The formula of Future perfect continuous Tense with Positive, Negative, Interrogative, and Negative – interrogative sentences and the Future Perfect Continuous Tense chart using different persons and numbers have been shown in the following.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense(Positive)
Formula – 1
| Subject + shall / will + have + been + Verb+ ing + Object. |
Chart – 1
| Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st | I shall have been playing football | We shall have been playing football |
| 2nd | You will have been playing football | You will have been playing football |
| 3rd | He / She / It will have been playing football | They will have been playing football |
Future Perfect Continuous Tense (Negative)
Formula – 2
| Subject + shall / will + not + have + been + Verb + ing + Object. |
Chart – 2
| Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st | I shall not have been playing football | We shall not have been playing football |
| 2nd | You will not have been playing football | You will not have been playing football |
| 3rd | He / She / It will not have been playing football | They will not have been playing football |
Future Perfect Continuous Tense (Interrogative)
Formula – 3
| Shall / Will + Subject + have been + Verb + ing + Object? |
Chart – 3
| Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st | Shall I have been playing football? | Shall we have been playing football? |
| 2nd | Will you have been playing football? | Will you have been playing football? |
| 3rd | Will he/she/it have been playing football? | Will they have been playing football? |
Wh-Word Question
Formula – 4
| Wh-Word + Shall / Will + Subject + have + been + Verb + ing + Object? |
Example:
- Where will you have been going?
- When will she have been having lunch?
- Where shall I have been making mistakes?
- Why will he have been being working?
- How will they have been celebrating Christmas?
- Why will Shruti have been laughing?
Questions for information are made with the ‘Wh-word’. who, which, what, why, whose, whom, how are called ‘Wh-word’.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense (Negative-Interrogative)
Formula – 5
| Shall / Will + Subject + not + have + been + Verb + ing + Object? |
Chart – 4
| Person | Singular | Plural |
| 1st | Shall I not have been playing football? | Shall we not have been playing football? |
| 2nd | Will you not have been playing football? | Will you not have been playing football? |
| 3rd | Will he/she/it not have been playing football? | Will they not have been playing football? |
In Negative-Interrogative sentences “not” is placed before the subject noun and after the subject pronoun.
Example:
- Will not Ravi have been playing football? (Before subject noun)
- Will he not have been playing football? (After subject pronoun)
Uses: Future Perfect Continuous Tense Class 5 English Grammar
Future Perfect Continuous Tense is used
1. to describe an action that will be in progress over a period of time and will end in the future.
Example:
- At noon Anuradha will have been singing songs for an hour.
- I shall have been working round the clock for twenty-two years next April.
2. To indicate an action that is in progress for a certain period of time, and it will be finished in the future.
Example:
- By next February, we shall have been living here in Bangalore for five years.
- When Harris gets his degree, he will have been studying for four years.
ΝΟΤΕ:
Both Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous tenses are normally used with a time phrase beginning with ‘by’, ‘by the end of’, ‘by then’, ‘by the 11th’ etc.
Future Perfect Continuous Tense Exercises
Exercise – 1
A. Fill in the blanks with proper forms of verbs using Future perfect Continuous Tense & simple present.
a. We__________(study) hard before we__________ (take) our examination.
b. The train __________ (run) for two days before it __________ (reach) Mumbai.
c. You __________ (try) hard before you __________ (succeed).
d. He __________ (study) M.B.B.S for the coming five years before he __________ (start) his M.D.
e. I __________ (do) sums for two hours before I __________ (go) to bed.
f. We __________ (travel) for two weeks before the result of the examination is __________ (out).
g. We __________ (learn) English grammar before the teacher __________ (leave) the classroom.
h. Satishbabu __________ (teach) for thirty years before he __________ (retire) in the coming winter.
i. The ship __________ (sail) for fifteen days before she __________ (reach) England.
j. Before the students__________(enter) the class, the bell __________(ring) for some time.
k. You __________( feel) bored after you __________(take) medicine for a week or two.
l. He __________(walk) through mud for four hours before he __________(reach) home.
m. I __________( finish) the book when I __________(read) it for two hours.
n. He __________( finish) the essay after he __________(write) it for two days.
o. They __________(reach) here after they __________(walk) for two days.
p. We __________(nurse) the patient till he __________(return).
q. We __________(listen) to the radio till 9p.m. before we __________(take) our meal.
r. The farmers __________(work) in the field till the rain __________(come).
s. The boy __________(read) this book until he __________(go) to school.
Class 5 English Grammar: All Topics & Chapters????:
Chapter 1. Parts of speech
Chapter 2. The sentence and Types
Chapter 3. Subject and Predicate
Chapter 4. Nouns and their Types
Chapter 5. Noun and Number
Chapter 6. Noun and Gender
Chapter 7. Articles
Chapter 8. Pronouns and their Classifications
Chapter 9. Verbs and Types of Verbs
Chapter 10. Regular Verbs Irregular Verbs List
Chapter 11. Subject and Verb Agreement
Chapter 12. Simple Present Tense
Chapter 13. Present Continuous Tense
Chapter 14. Present Perfect Tense
Chapter 15. Present Perfect Continuous Tense
Chapter 16. Simple Past Tense
Chapter 17. Past Continuous Tense
Chapter 18. Past Perfect Tense
Chapter 19. Past Perfect Continuous Tense
Chapter 20. Simple Future Tense
Chapter 21. Future Continuous Tense
Chapter 22. Future Perfect Tense
Chapter 23. Future Perfect Continuous Tense
Chapter 24. Tense Exercises
Chapter 25. Modal Verbs
Chapter 26. Adjectives and their Types
Chapter 27. Degree of Adjectives
Chapter 28. Adverbs and Comparison
Chapter 29. Prepositions and their Uses
Chapter 30. Conjunctions
Chapter 31. Direct and Indirect Speech
Chapter 32. Transformation of Sentences
Chapter 33. Punctuation
