Past future perfect continuous tense, atau dikenal juga sebagai past 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 lampau dan mengungkapkan segala kejadian yang akan sudah berlangsung selama sekian lama pada titik waktu tertentu di masa lampau. Berikut akan dipaparkan pengertian, rumus, fungsi, dan contoh past future perfect continuous tense.

Pengertian Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

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

He would have been working abroad for a month if his visa has been approved at the time. I would have been developing this website for a year by 2018. When she took the internship, she would have been studying at the university for two years.

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Rumus Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Past 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 + would hv bn V-ing*I/she/he/it + would hv bn V-ing	You/we/they would hv bn calling I/she/he/it would hv bn calling
(-)	You/we/they + would not hv bn V-ing I/she/he/it + would not hv bn V-ing	You/we/they would not hv bn calling I/she/he/it would not hv bn calling
(?)	Would + you/we/they + hv bn V-ing?Would + I/she/he/it + hv bn V-ing? – Yes, she/he/it + would – No, she/he/it + would + not	Would you/we/they hv bn calling? Would I/she/he/it hv bn calling? – Yes, she/he/it would – No, she/he/it wouldn’t

* hv bn V-ing : have + been + V-ing

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B. Tanpa verb (nominal)

	Pola	Contoh
(+)	You/we/they + would hv bn pel I/she/he/it + would hv bn pel	You/we/they would have been there I/she/he/it would have been there
(-)	You/we/they + would + not hv bn pel I/she/he/it + would + not hv bn pel	You/we/they would not have been there I/she/he/it would not have been there
(?)	Would + you/we/they + hv bn pel? Would + I/she/he/it + hv bn pel? – Yes, I/she/he/it + would – No, I/she/he/it + would + not	Would you/we/they have been there? Would I/she/he/it have been there? – Yes, I/she/he/it would – No, I/she/he/it wouldn’t

 

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Fungsi dan Contoh Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

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

1. Untuk menyatakan kejadian yang akan sudah berlangsung selama waktu tertentu pada suatu titik di masa lampau

   Contoh:

   They would have been learning English grammar for three months by April.

2. Untuk menyatakan INDIRECT SPEECH dari future perfect continuous tense

   Contoh:

   Jane : (direct)	I will have been studying at university for 3 years next month. (Aku akan sudah kuliah selama 3 bulan bulan depan.)
   Caroline : (indirect)	Jane said she would have been studying at university for 3 years the following month. (Jane bilang, dia akan sudah kuliah selama 3 bulan bulan berikutnya.)

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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