The future perfect

The simple and continuous future perfect forms both

• refer to time looked back on from a future point

In six months’ time he’ll have left for South America.

By the end of the summer he’ll have been freelancing for over two years.

The future perfect can also

• express an assumption

You’ll have missed the worst of the traffic I expect.

You won’t have heard the news about the Austrian elections, of course.

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