Future perfect continuous tense, atau dikenal juga sebagai future perfect progressive tense, adalah salah satu dari tenses dalam bahasa Inggris yang bisa dikatakan jarang digunakan. Hal ini karena tense ini merujuk pada masa depan dan mengungkapkan segala kejadian yang akan sudah berlangsung selama sekian lama pada titik waktu tertentu di masa depan. Berikut akan dipaparkan pengertian, rumus, fungsi, dan contoh future perfect continuous tense.

Pengertian Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect continuous tense adalah bentuk tense yang digunakan untuk menyatakan kejadian yang akan sudah berlangsung selama waktu tertentu pada suatu titik di masa depan (future perfect continuous). Sehingga apapun yang akan sudah kita lakukan selama durasi tertentu di masa depan dapat diungkapkan dengan tense ini. Demikian pula dengan keadaan atau kondisi kita, seperti:

I will have been waiting here for three hours by six o’clock. By 2001, I will have been living in London for sixteen years. When I finish this course, I will have been learning English for twenty years.

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Rumus Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Future perfect continuous tense memiliki dua rumus. Yang pertama disebut verbal dan dipakai ketika terdapat verb (kata kerja), sementara yang kedua disebut nominal dan digunakan tatkala tidak terdapat verb. Sebagai gantinya, be (been) perlu ditambahkan di rumus kedua ini.

A. Dengan verb (verbal)

	Pola	Contoh
(+)	You/we/they will have been V-ing I/she/he/it will have been V-ing	You/we/they will have been swimming She/he/it will have been swimming
(-)	You/we/they will not have been V-ing I/she/he/it will not have been V-ing	You/we/they will not have been swimming She/he/it will not have been swimming
(?)	Will you/we/they have been V-ing? Will I/she/he/it have been V-ing? – Yes, she/he/it + will – No, she/he/it + will + not	Will you/we/they have been swimming? Will I/she/he/it have been swimming? – Yes, she/he/it will – No, she/he/it won’t

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B. Tanpa verb (nominal)

	Pola	Contoh
(+)	You/we/they + will have been pel I/she/he/it + will have been pel	You/we/they will have been hungry I/she/he/it will have been hungry
(-)	You/we/they + will not have been pel I/she/he/it + will not have been pel	You/we/they will not have been hungry I/she/he/it will not have been hungry
(?)	Will + you/we/they + have been pel? Will + I/she/he/it + have been pel? – Yes, she/he/it + will – No, she/he/it + will + not	Will you/we/they have been hungry? Will I/she/he/it have been hungry? – Yes, she/he/it will – No, she/he/it won’t

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Fungsi dan Contoh Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Secara garis besar, fungsi future perfect continuous tense dalam bahasa Inggris adalah sebagai:

1. Untuk menyatakan kejadian yang akan sudah berlangsung selama durasi tertentu di masa depan

   For By the end of When Before

   Contoh:

   He will have been studying in Cairo for a year by the end of next month. (Dia akan telah belajar di Kairo selama setahun pada akhir bulan depan.)

2. Untuk menyatakan kejadian yang saat ini belum selesai, tetapi akan selesai di masa depan

   Contoh:

   Next year I will have been working here for four years. (Tahun depan, aku akan sudah bekerja di sini selama empat tahun.)

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Daftar Materi di English Tenses

1. SIMPLE PRESENT
2. PRESENT CONTINUOUS
3. PRESENT PERFECT
4. PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
5. SIMPLE PAST
6. PAST CONTINUOUS
7. PAST PERFECT
8. PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
9. SIMPLE FUTURE
10. FUTURE CONTINUOUS
11. FUTURE PERFECT
12. FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
13. SIMPLE PAST FUTURE
14. PAST FUTURE CONTINUOUS
15. PAST FUTURE PERFECT
16. PAST FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS