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Definition of Future perfect tense

1. Noun. A perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the future. "`I will have finished' is an example of the future perfect"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Future Perfect Tense

Literary usage of Future perfect tense

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on by Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough (1916)
"future perfect tense 478. The Future Perfect denotes an action as completed in the future:— ut sementem feceris, ita metes (De Or. ii. ..."

2. Brief Greek Syntax by Louis Bevier (1903)
"THE future perfect tense 156. Action completed in Future Time. — The future perfect tense expresses an action as completed at some future time. ..."

3. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The future perfect tense represents that an action or event will be completed at or before a certain time yet future. This clumsy form has not yet become ..."

4. A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools by William Harvey Wells (1848)
"The future perfect tense ? Examples. Similar terms, corresponding with the signification of the tenses, are also employed by Webster, Frazee, Day, Swett, ..."

5. A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools by William Harvey Wells (1859)
"The future perfect tense ? Examples. Similar terms, corresponding with the signification of the tenses, are also employed by Webster, Frazee, Day, Swett, ..."

6. Applied Business English by Hubert Adonley Hagar, Rupert Pitt SoRelle (1914)
"... as, I had written I had been writing The future perfect tense indicates action or being to be completed at or before some stated future time; as, ..."

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