Practice Makes Perfect

The structure for an action in progress or incomplete is will have been verb-ing:

to work will have been working

to see will have been seeing

Let’s look at the complete conjugation:

Pronoun Habitual Action Incomplete Action

I will have spoken will have been speaking

you will have tried will have been trying

he, she, it will have made will have been making

we will have read will have been reading

they will have worked will have been working

Rewrite the present tense sentences in the future perfect tense.

1. My father takes the girl to school.


2. We ride on the subway.


3. They are riding their bikes.


4. Do you make candy?


5. She does not understand.


6. Do they do the work?


7. I am going to the same class.


8. Chet breaks his finger.


9. She arrives by ten.


10. Sabrina writes several notes.

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