Future Accomplishments
Future Perfect
The future perfect expresses what will have occurred up to a specific point of time in the future.
Positive Form:
Subject + will + have + participle form of verb + (object(s))
The equipment will have been out for order for two weeks by the time the new batch of orders comes in.Negative Form:
Subject + will + not + have + participle form of verb + (object(s))
Mary won't have increased our output by the end of the first quarter.Question Form:
(Question Word) + will + subject + have + participle form of verb?
What will the new energy technologies have done to increase the power output of a plant?Examples of What Will Have Happened
The equipment will have been out for order for two weeks by the time the new batch of orders comes in.
The new advertising campaign will have solved our problem of overproduction by next week.
Our business will have transitioned to producing fast moving consumer goods by 2012.
Todd will have included all the factory overheads in the budget by tomorrow morning.
Time expressions: 'By' and 'By the ..'
It is important to express the point in time in the future by when something will have happened with the future perfect. Here are the two most common time expressions used with the future perfect form:
By + date or time
…by Tuesday.
… by 2003.
…by the end of next week.
By the time + clause
…by the time we finish this class
…by the time you receive this letter