Future Perfect

 

The Future Perfect is used to talk about an event or action that will be finished before a certain event or time in future:

• They will have built the house (the house will be ready) by February (‘by’ here means ‘before’).

 

To make the Future Perfect, use will have + the past participle.

 

Note: For regular verbs, this is the “-ed” form of the verb. For the list of past participle forms of irregular verbs see Verbs: irregular in the Pre-Intermediate course.

 

Singular	Plural
I will have (’ll have) finished You’ll have finished He/she/it ’ll have finished	We’ll have finished You’ll have finished They’ll have finished

 

• Jack will have read all his books by next month.
• The next time you see me, I’ll have had a haircut.
• We are late! The play will have started by the time we get to the stadium.