Exploring Future Progressive and Perfect Tenses

This video tutorial, part of a series on verb tenses, focuses on the future progressive and future perfect tenses. It explains their forms, uses, and provides examples. The future progressive is less common and used for actions in progress at a future time, often in polite or formal contexts. The future perfect is used for actions completed by a future point. The tutorial also covers the future perfect progressive, which expresses the duration of an action up to a future point. Practice exercises are included to reinforce learning.

What is the structure of the future progressive tense?

• Will + have been + present participle

• Will + have + past participle

• Will + be + present participle

• Will + be + past participle

Why is the future progressive tense less commonly used?

• It is only used in written English.

• Other future forms are used more frequently.

• It is less polite.

• It is more complex to form.

In which context is the future progressive tense often used?

• To describe past actions.

• To express certainty.

• To make polite inquiries.

• To describe habitual actions.

What is the structure of the future perfect tense?

• Will + be + present participle

• Will + have + past participle

• Will + be + past participle

• Will + have been + present participle

When do we use the future perfect tense?

• To describe habitual actions in the future.

• To describe actions that will be in progress at a future point in time.

• To describe actions that will be completed before a certain point in the future.

• To describe actions that are currently happening.

What is the structure of the future perfect progressive tense?

• Will + have been + present participle

• Will + be + past participle

• Will + have + past participle

• Will + be + present participle

What does the future perfect progressive tense express?

• The duration of an action that will be in progress up to a future point in time.

• The completion of an action by a future point in time.

• Actions that are currently happening.

• Habitual actions in the future.

Which verb form is not typically used in the progressive form?

• Intransitive verbs

• Transitive verbs

• Non-action verbs

• Action verbs

Which time expression can be used with the future perfect tense?

• Until + a specific time

• By + a specific time

• Since + a specific time

• During + a specific time

What is the correct form for expressing future duration?

• By + a specific time

• For + an amount of time

• Since + a specific time

• Until + a specific time