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The future perfect continuous tense is used to express events that will start before a point in time in the future (or have already started) and will still be in progress at that point:

By tomorrow, it will have been raining for four days.
Soon, he'll have been running for 4 hours.

The preposition for is used with the future perfect tense to express that something will start before a point in time in the future (or has already started) and that it will still be true at that point:

The future simple tense is used to express future intentions that are decided at the time of speaking (spontaneous offers, promises and decisions):

The future simple tense is often used in the main clause of complex sentences that refer to future time and contain clauses of condition, time or purpose. In the subordinate clause (starting with if, when, as soon as, after, before, the moment etc.), we usually use a present tense: