Before, after, already, just, till/until, when, by, by the time, та ін.

Before, after, already, just, till/until, when, by, by the time, та ін.

THE Future Perfect

Називає:

· Дію, що завершиться перед моментом або іншою дією у майбутньому. Напр..They will have finished their meeting by four o’clock this afternoon.

Вирази часу:

By, by the time, before, until, by then, та ін.

Тривало-заверені часи (the Perfect-Continuous Tenses)

Утворення

the Present Perfect-Continuous

I / You have been reading.

He / She / It has been reading.

Haveyou been reading? – Yes, I have. / No, I haven’t.

Hashe / she / it been reading?

You have not (haven’t) been reading.

He / She / It has not (hasn’t) been reading.

the Past Perfect Continuous

He had been crying.

Hadhe been crying?- Yes, he had. / No, he hadn’t.

He had not (hadn’t) been crying.

the Future Perfect Continuous

I / you / we / will (’ll) have been working.

WillI / you / we have been working? – Yes, I / we will. No, I / we won’t.

I / You / We / will not (won’t) have been working.

Вживання

Часи Perfect Continuous підкреслюють тривалість і завершеність дії. А саме: Present Perfect Continuous називає дію, що тривала і завершилась перед моментом мовлення; Past Perfect Continuous називає дію, що тривала і завершилась перед моментом або іншою дією у минулому; Future Perfect Continuousназиває дію, що триватиме і завершиться перед моментом або іншою дією у майбутньому.

He is tired because he has been studying for his exam all morning.

She had been studying English for only three months before she went to Great Britain.

By the end of this month he will have been working at the same factory for twenty years.

He told us that by the end of that month he would have been working at the same factory for twenty years.