Business English B2 · Lesson 4A

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Grammar focus of this lesson

Future perfect & future continuous

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Future perfect & future continuous
Looking back from a future point, or looking in on a future moment.
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Rules & form
- ›will have + participle: finished before a future time (by then, by 2030).
- ›will be + -ing: in progress at a future moment.
- ›Also for polite enquiries: Will you be joining us?
- ›Time clauses stay present: by the time we finish…
Examples
- “By December we'll have delivered all three phases.”
- “This time next week I'll be presenting in Berlin.”
- “By then they'll have been running the pilot for a year.”
Watch out · by = not later than · until = up to that moment.
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