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What is Grammar?
English Grammar Terms
The 8 English Parts of
Speech
These are the words that you use to make a sentence.
There are only
8 types of word - and the most
important is the Verb!
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Verbs |
be, have, do, work |
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Nouns |
man, town, music |
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Adjectives |
a, the, 69, big |
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Adverbs |
loudly, well, often |
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Pronouns |
you, ours, some |
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Prepositions |
at, in, on, from |
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Conjunctions |
and, but, though |
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Interjections |
ah, dear, er, um |
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Questions
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verbs
Going to
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Phrasal Verbs
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(Un) Countable nouns
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Preposition List
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| Grammar Quizzes
Parts of Speech Quiz
Verb Classification Quiz
Main Verb Forms Quiz
Active or Passive Quiz
Subjunctive Quiz
Future Time Quiz
Continuous Tense Verb
Quiz
Used to do or Be used to
Quiz
Have to,
Must, Must not Quiz
Can, Could, Be able
to Quiz
Questions Quiz
Tag Questions
Quiz
Infinitive or
-ing Quiz
Gerunds Quiz
Phrasal Verbs
Quiz
Conditionals Quiz
For or Since Quiz
Present Simple
Present Continuous
Present Perfect
Simple
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Continuous
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Questions
Comparative
Adjectives
Superlative
Adjectives
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Future Perfect Tense
The future perfect tense is quite an easy tense to
understand and use. The future perfect tense talks about the past in the
future.
How do we make the Future Perfect Tense?
The structure of the future perfect tense is:
| subject |
+ |
auxiliary
verb WILL |
+ |
auxiliary
verb HAVE |
+ |
main
verb |
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invariable |
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invariable |
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past participle |
| will |
have |
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Look at these example sentences in the future perfect tense:
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subject |
auxiliary verb |
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auxiliary verb |
main verb |
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I |
will |
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have |
finished |
by 10am. |
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You |
will |
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have |
forgotten |
me by then. |
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She |
will |
not |
have |
gone |
to school. |
| - |
We |
will |
not |
have |
left. |
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Will |
you |
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have |
arrived? |
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Will |
they |
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have |
received |
it? |
In speaking with the future perfect tense, we often contract the
subject and will. Sometimes, we contract the subject,
will and have all together:
| I will have |
I'll have |
I'll've |
| you will have |
you'll have |
you'll've |
he will have
she will have
it will have |
he'll have
she'll have
it'll have |
he'll've
she'll've
it'll've |
| we will have |
we'll have |
we'll've |
| they will have |
they'll have |
they'll've |
| english club.com Tip |
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sometimes use shall instead of will, especially for I and
we. |
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How do we use the Future Perfect Tense?
The future perfect tense expresses action in the future
before another action in the future. This is the past in the
future. For example:
- The train will leave the station at 9am. You will arrive at the
station at 9.15am. When you arrive, the train will have left.
| The train will have left when you
arrive. |
| past |
present |
future |
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Train leaves in future at 9am. |
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You arrive in future at 9.15am. |
Look at some more examples:
- You can call me at work at 8am. I will have arrived at
the office by 8.
- They will be tired when they arrive. They will not
have slept for a long time.
- "Mary won't be at home when you arrive."
"Really? Where
will she have gone?"
You can sometimes think of the future perfect tense like the
present perfect tense, but instead of your viewpoint being in the present, it
is in the future:
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future perfect tense |
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have |
done
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will |
have
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done |
> | |
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now |
future |
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past |
now |
future |
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