Understand how to build sentences using the future perfect verb continuous tense
Positive Sentences
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Examples:
- In ten minutes, I will have been waiting 1 hour for the bus.
- We will have been working here for 10 years in June.
- Robert will have been living in France for 1 year next month.
- We will have been saving money for many years, by the time you need to
go to college.
Negative Sentences
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Examples:
- I have not been waiting a long time.
- The cookies have not been baking 5 minutes. It takes them time before they are done.
- I have not been studying for many years; I guess it is time to go back to school.
- We have not been living in this house for 2 weeks, and already the walls are dirty.
- This car has not been working properly for the last few years, I think it is time to buy a new car.
Questions
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Examples:
- Will I have been working here long enough to get an extra week vacation this summer?
- Will we have been living in the states long enough to get _________ next year?
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