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Future perfect continuous for continuous events in the future

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.

Future perfect for actions completed before a point in the future

The future perfect tense is used to express that an action will be completed before a point in time in the future (any time up to that point). This point can be implied or expressed with a time expression or a clause with a verb in the present simple tense:

Future perfect with FOR

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:

Future simple for intentions (offers, promises and decisions)

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

Future simple for predictions

The future simple is used to make predictions that are based on personal judgement, opinion or intuition, and not on present evidence. Whether or not the event will happen is not certain. Such predictions are often introduced by I think / I don't think:

Future simple in complex sentences

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:

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